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 All created beings are driven by desires and go through innumerable births seeking transient material pleasures and mundane sensory enjoyments through the gratification of their limitless inexhaustible desires. However, there is no such thing as complete fulfilment or satisfaction of insatiable worldly desires. The more one endeavours to fulfil their unending desires, the stronger and more powerful they become like an all-consuming fire that devours everything but is never satiated. Unrestrained desires can lead one to degradation and a life of sinful actions and adharmic activities which generate painful outcomes and adverse karmic reactions, both in the present and future births.  Although there exist multitudinous individual desires for specific objects and things; generally speaking, there are some universal, most fundamental desires common to all human beings. These are Jijivisha, Jigyasa and Bubhuksha. Jijivisha or Jeeveshna is the attachment to one’s life and physical ...