Desire is the cause of your unsteady mind. Unfulfilled desire leads one to experience perceived unhappiness and fulfilled desire leads one to experience perceived happiness.
However, you know from your own experience that fulfilled desires are temporary and you can be sure that once a desire is fulfilled, another desire will soon come along. So how is one to live their life? How do you even get out of bed in the morning if we have no desire?
The answer is to direct your desires towards the Divine–that One. Have the desire to get up early and take time to contemplate that One. Go and do your work with the desire to do your best, not for yourself but for that One.
Worldly desires stem from ego. In Spiritual on the path of Devotion, your desire is to please the Divine.
Do not trick yourself to think that the purpose of your life is to fulfil your ego’s desire because that only will lead to additional karma. Fulfilling selfless desire without having any expectations is Nishkam karma and because your actions are selfless you are freed from it.
Shree KrsnaG teaches that everything in the universe is perfect and has been planned. You have only to let your life flow forward. Your petty desires slow down the flow and you incur karma for which you will have rebirths. Let go of material worldly desires and meet the life God has planned for you.
