Hunger and Thirst :: Desires

--- -From aitareya upanishad ऐतरेय उपनिषद 2.5

तमशनायापिपासे अब्रूतामावाभ्यामभिप्रजानीहीति ते
अब्रवीदेतास्वेव वां देवतास्वाभजाम्येतासु भागिन्न्यौ करोमीति ।
तस्माद्यस्यै कस्यै च देवतायै हविगृर्ह्यते
भागिन्यावेवास्यामशनायापिपासे भवतः ॥५॥

tamashanayapipase abrutamavabhyamabhiprajanihiti te abravidetasveva va.n devatasvabhajamyetasu bhaginnyau karomiti |
tasmadyasyai kasyai cha devatayai havigri.rhyate bhaginyavevasyamashanayapipase bhavatah || 5 ||

Translation ::

Hunger and thirst said to the Creator: "For the two of us find an abode also." He said to them: "I assign the two of you to these deities; I make you co-sharers with them." Therefore to hatsoever deity an oblation is made, hunger and thirst became sharers in it.

Comments :

Seeing other deities occupy their allotted places in man, hunger and thirst also demanded their own abode for themselves. Instead of assigning them an independent abode, the Creator asked them to share the abode with all the other deities. This signifies that desires afflict all the senses and that hunger and thirst are mere sensations which cannot subsist independently without their supporting sense organs; for example mere hunger cannot eat
food unless it takes the help of the mouth to eat.

Then hunger and thirst were created and they approached Ishvara. They also asked for a place to live. These Devatas reside in our senses and when we sit for meditation they open the senses with force and allow the object to enter. When the thirst and hunger asked for a place to sit, Ishvara told them to share the same place where Devatas reside. Therefore, each and every sense organ there is thirst and hunger (desires). One can never satisfy them. That is the very nature of hunger and thirst. All the sense organs are always hungry and thirsty. It is good to understand and appreciate this. Ishvara made them share the place to sit along with the Devatas. Whatever food is offered to these Devatas is shared by this hunger and thirst. When Devatas eat then that also goes to hunger and thirst. It is said in scriptures that more you feed the senses, hungrier they become. It is like fire, the more fuel you put, fire becomes hungrier. Our senses can never be satisfied with the pleasures of the sense organs, because hunger and thirst is residing with them. Whenever something offered to the senses then this hunger and thirst also gets share in it.

In this way, Ishvara first created the world, then He created Virata Purusha. Then He made all the Devatas, Lokapalas and then He brought this abode of human body for them. The Devatas became satisfied with the human body. They got their respective abod