Re-directing Desire

Sri Vasistha, The Desire For Liberation, pg 22

Abandon your latent tendencies, even as a bird wishing to fly into the sky breaks out of its shell. Born of ignorance, these tendencies are hard to dis-identify with and destroy, and they give birth to endless sorrow. It is this ignorant self-limiting tendency of the mind that views the infinite as the finite. However, even as the sun dispels mist, inquiry into the nature of the True Self dispels this ignorant self limiting tendency. In fact, the very desire to undertake this inquiry is able to bring about a change. Austerities and other such practices are of no use in this. When the mind is purified of its past by the arising of wisdom, it abandons its previous tendencies. The mind seeks the True Self only in order to dissolve itself into the True Self. This indeed is the very nature of the mind. This is the supreme goal; strive for this.