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Jagat, sattva... Jagat is also complete. It is very difficult to realize completeness in life. When we have a feeling of missing something, then our consciousness is not oriented toward completeness. Even with material desires, you feel something is missing. You are not happy. You are suffering. You are not content. You feel only this; it means there is no completeness. Or it means that you are not aware of your completeness. That "I am Pūrṇa," who is Pūrṇa, does not depend on something to be dependent upon. And when it is missing, then you feel lost, lonely, incomplete. Everything comes from the Pūrṇa, exists in the Pūrṇa, and dissolves in the Pūrṇa. This realization can only take place if you have in your consciousness the completeness, or pūrṇa. This pūrṇatā should be forever and not temporary. We feel sometimes complete, but only for a time. Then you are suffering: loneliness, missing, unfulfillment of desires. Desire means automatically incompleteness. Desire means that there is something missing, and you would like to refill it. No desires means there is completeness. What does it mean to have hunger? That your stomach is empty. And what does it mean not to have hunger? Your stomach is full. What does it mean to have thirst? There is a lack of water in your body. And what means that you don’t have thirst? There is enough liquid in the body. Similarly, any desire means something is missing. And when there is something missing, it’s not complete. Therefore, develop in your consciousness the completeness. And that’s why it is said, reduce or overcome your desires. Each desire demands immense attention from you. Each desire means it’s dividing thyself. Each desire means creating the duality, and each desire means leading to the end, meaning to disappointment. And that means that, consciously or intellectually and emotionally, we are divided; we are separated from the consciousness of the Pūrṇa, from the being, the state of the Pūrṇa or realization.