Almost all the great men have in one way or other conveyed this law to us.

Thousands of years ago Maharshi Patanjali in Sanskrit said ‘tivra samveganam asannah’. It means that it comes near to you when your wanting it becomes intense.

No one could have explained it better than Maharshi Patanajali when he explained that the desired object has to be aspired for wholly. Our whole being should go mad after that object. Mad not in the medical sense but in the sense of aspiration. My soul has to aspire for it. Such should be the intensity of my desire.

The word used here is ‘tivra’ that means intense. The emphasis has been given on the intensity of my desire, the fervor, the boiling. There has to be a boiling inside me. There has to be a longing in my soul to become one with the object. This is not obsession but love. My love for what I want.

Actually the premise on which this has been said is that no two objects are actually two. We only perceive them to be two. When there is no space between what I want and my own self (the seeker and the sought) then there is no question of moving or going somewhere to get something. Everything could be made available to us provided we have the eyes to see it and realize it and a heart to aspire for it. After all what I want is ultimately my own self. My ultimate purpose is to achieve unity with my own self.

When Jesus Christ said ‘Ask and it shall be given’. He meant the same thing.