“Bapak explained about the influence of the desires, which is always an obstacle to your worship of the One Almighty God. This influence resides in your heart.
Broadly speaking, there are four kinds of desires. The first is the desire of greed. This desire wants to be the best, the richest, to understand better and to be cleverer than anyone else. In short, it wants to be better than others. The second is the desire of arrogance. Arrogance is the desire that wants to quarrel, to blame others, to make trouble for others; it wants to be comfortable and always to be in the right. Also, it is continually looking for an opportunity to quarrel, looking for an adversary or an enemy. The third is the desire of wanting or wishing. This means wanting all kinds of things, and wanting to possess all kinds of things. The desire of wanting is usually very close to the desires of arrogance and greed.
The fourth is the desire of wanting to do the right thing. The desire of wanting to do the right thing is the one that is willing to give way; it likes to give, and to worship the One God. That is why sometimes a person will remember and feel the wish to worship God. However, such a wish is very easily overwhelmed by the desires of wanting, arrogance and greed, so that the wish to worship God is weakened.
All these desires are always connected with the forces that are lower than human; that is, the material force, the forces of plants and animals, and the physical human force. Consequently, if people use their heart and mind in the worship of God they are sure to be hindered at every step by these low forces, which use the four desires as their tools.”