Just as we tell disagreeable people to get out of our homes, let’s tell disagreeable desires to get out of our minds. Whenever some person behaves in a very disruptive and even destructive way, then we may politely but firmly tell that person to leave. We need to apply that same power in our inner world. When some desires turn out to be disruptive or even destructive of our core values and purposes, then we need to tell them to leave. And that is what the Bhagavad Gita in 15.5 calls as ‘vinivṛtta‘ to retire them from our consciousness in a way that they can never come back.

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15.05 Those who are free from false prestige, illusion and false association, who understand the eternal, who are done with material lust, who are freed from the dualities of happiness and distress, and who, unbewildered, know how to surrender unto the Supreme Person attain to that eternal kingdom.