Can a son or a wife contribute to the peace of the desire-laden subtle body?
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outcome
"No one can pacify another’s desire; each desire is a personal journey, and in wishing to extinguish another’s, you only dissolve your own."
According to Osho, no one can pacify another’s desire-laden subtle body; desire is utterly personal. A wife’s or son’s prayers and rituals cannot free the departed; they only transform the doer. By wishing to extinguish another’s desires, one dissolves one’s own. Therefore such rites are valuable as self-purification and understanding, not as intervention in the other’s journey.
You can’t calm someone else’s inner cravings; when you pray or do rituals for them, you end up calming and cleansing your own heart.
Why this matters practically
- Turns grief rituals into conscious self-healing and meditation.
- Reduces guilt and dependency by focusing on your own transformation.
- Avoids magical thinking about controlling another’s liberation.
- Reduces guilt and dependency by focusing on your own transformation.
- Avoids magical thinking about controlling another’s liberation.
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