One reason is that he is never sure what he desires. Out of a hundred persons you will find one who knows what he desires, but ninety-nine say, "Do I desire, or do I not desire; I don't know. I think I desire, but I do not know if it is so." Ninety-nine percent among men is in this condition; they really do not know if they desire. One day they say, "Yes, I do," another day they say, "No, I don't think I desire." Therefore their desire is decomposed in the unclearness of the mind.
Then there are others who analyze their desire, and they analyze it till they have broken it to pieces. There are many analytical people who have all through life destroyed their desires by analyzing them.
There is a third kind of people: those who have adopted a passive attitude. They say it is a sin to desire. Yet they cannot be without desire, and in this passive attitude they say, "Well, I will not desire." They have crossed the desire that was there.
And there is a fourth kind of person who desires something, but by lack of concentration cannot turn his desire into a wish. Therefore the desire stays in its primitive stage all the time.
A fifth kind of person develops desire into a wish; he goes so far and no further. But the wish must be developed into will. So the desire is not carried through, so to speak, and never comes to its culmination.

Now this is a subject which is of the greatest importance in the life of every person in the world. No one can exist in the world without wishing for something, and if there is a person who has no wish he need not stay in the world. He must go somewhere out of the crowd; he cannot exist there. He must go out in the mountains and even there he should turn into a tree or into a rock in order to exist, because to be a living being without a wish is not possible.

The difference between persons -- high and low -- is according to the wish they have. One wishes for the earth, the other wishes for heaven. The desire of one takes him to the heights of spiritual progress, the desire of the other takes him to the depth of the earth.

Man is great or small, man is wise or foolish, man is on the right road or on the wrong road according to the desire he has.