Question: It is said that we should give up all desires, but isn’t Self-Realization a desire?

Babaji:

As long as you want to have a target, you shall maintain that one desire; otherwise you will never put in the effort. So you have the desire that you want to have Self-Realization. Finally you abandon that. That is what is called moksha, sanyasa yoga that Krishna taught in the eighteenth chapter of the Bhagavad Gita. So you should hold on to that thought, and finally when you abandon that also, then the actual yoga happens. So the ‘I’ thought ultimately vanishes automatically. That is why this meditation helps. When you sit for meditation, you are simply trying to remain quiet. You are not even setting any target, “I want to have a moksha, I want to have……” But you are going to have moksha. Sadhana meditation enables the mind to develop the ability not to absorb. It has become habitual for it to be absorbing things. Constant practice is needed. Meditation is the highest practice. Things get glued to the mind, meditation cleanses the mind.