[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

[little jeremiah]

I could not agree more. And the more a person experiences the closeness of God, the more satisfied he is from within, and the less the glitter of the world tantalizes.

But to try to eradicate desire is a hopeless task. Cannot be done. And to try to eliminate the very self from which the desire springs is but spiritual suicide; and like bodily suicide, only guarantees more future suffering since the soul can never be extinguished.