Bhagwadgita - thinam oru shlokam

[Shakthiprabha.]

அர்ஜூனா ஆசைத் தீ தணிக்க முடியாதது, தீர்க்கமுடியாதது. ஆசையின் பகை மூட்டம் ஞானியின் அறிவைக்கூட மூடிக்கொண்டிருக்கிறது.

on a lighter note, I remember nagesh's ranting "ஆசை ஆசை! ஆயிரம் பொன்னை வெச்சுகிட்டு என்னடா பண்ணுவ! எத்தனை நாளைக்கு தாங்கும்!"

Alas not just normal men, not just aspirants, even wise men or gnaanis sometimes fall prey for lust/desire. (famous vishwamitra-menaka is just a single sample amongst many)

Desire can crop up and take any form including normal rightful desires of daily life, to illegal ones. Whether legal or illegal, desire and its effect I suppose would be the same.

Desire for a parent to see their kid shining is a socially accepted one.

Desire for sensual pleasures are not looked well or respected in our society. But the end result of lust clouding the self -realisation is THE SAME (or varies just as much as each individual's intensity of lust)

However, if quenching of one's desire, deprives another, then third law of motion comes into picture. Every action would have equal opposite reaction, hence, one who sows has to reap.