[little jeremiah]

Also left out (a subset of the Buddhist position that neither eternal individual souls nor God exists), is that desire for sensual pleasures or enjoyment is not the only kind of desire. In fact, the Vedas state that desire is inherent in the soul and just needs to be re-directed to its natural object - God. Desire for God is natural and produces the greatest happiness, desire for the world creates the greatest suffering.

The "I am God" philosophy of Shankaracharya is veiled Buddhism, but (mis)using the Vedas to support his position; whereas Gautama Buddha rejected the Vedas. But since both Buddha and Shankaracharya were predicted in the Puranas and had specific missions, they had their uses. Although the philosophy they both taught is erroneous in many ways.

[HangnJudge]

Also left out (a subset of the Buddhist position that neither eternal individual souls nor God exists), is that desire for sensual pleasures or enjoyment is not the only kind of desire. In fact, the Vedas state that desire is inherent in the soul and just needs to be re-directed to its natural object - God. Desire for God is natural and produces the greatest happiness, desire for the world creates the greatest suffering.

One Christian viewpoint on this concept is
in my mind, well shown in a work by

C.S. Lewis
Pilgrim's Regress :
an Allegorical Apology for Christianity Reason and Romanticism

That "Desire" points to a thing that is not on this Earth
and cannot be satisfied by anything but God
All efforts to fulfill desires in any earthly target results in error