A contemplation on desire and creation

"Desire tells us, each time, “Now get thou this, and then you shall be happy”. We believe it implicitly and set about getting it. We are unhappy for wanting it, but we forget the unhappiness in the effort. If we do not get it, we have to suffer. Neither are we happy if we get it; for desire then finds something else for us to strive for, and we fail to see how desire is fooling us all the time. The fact is desire is like a bottomless pit which one can never fill up, or like the all-consuming fire which burns the fiercer, the more we feed it."

The above extract (taken from the Maha Yoga) basically tells us that following desire in the pursuit of happiness is counterproductive and self-defeating. Yet desire is the birth-seed of creation. How can desire be wrong? Let us contemplate on these seemingly contradictory points of view.
Desire or the longing for a thing or experience is in itself is not evil, it has its use. The greatest desire one can experience is to pine for God or to long for Source. That too will pass as the perception of duality falls away. The realisation that you are, and have always been, that which you long for will take its place. Until then desires will come and go. We cannot ever hope or expect to find peace in attaining anything outside ourselves. That does not limit us from creating that which we desire. The knowing of stillness is what separates us from falling prey to desire and using it for positive divine creation.

We are always creating, whether we are aware of it or not. You have created yourself of your own being and your world follows that same creative energy. Observation of stillness enables us to become more aware in our creations. From this awareness, we can become more attentive to creation and the process of creation.

There is no limit to the amount of substance or level of substance that can be created. It therefore follows that there is always more than enough for everyone. It is pointless then to look at the creations of others with an eye of desire. They are on their own journey as you are on yours. The ego will bring up jealousy, greed, envy for as long as you look to the possessions of others and for as long as you seek happiness in possessions.  

"Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that [is] thy neighbour's."

The act of coveting as warned about in the tenth commandment has no place in conscious creation. You are here to create, not to compete for that which is already created!

Creating is an awesome experience, and the most awesome creations are created from a point of stillness. It is in stillness that creator, creation and creating are one and the same. It is in stillness that all of creation is awestruck and it is in stillness that all of creation is rejuvenated and then dissolved. Enjoy the experience of creation as it is meant to be enjoyed and replenish your creative energy in stillness.