They also protect against attachment to worldly desires.
I have turned away from worldly desires, and abandoned carnal indulgences.
Does the Buddha not condemn the demon of worldly desires?
Has the Buddha not told us to forsake worldly desires?
The devil offers to help achieve his worldly desires, on condition that he rapes 21 girls within 7 days.
While he gets free from all the worldly desires, he manages to make free the others who have highly involved with them.
Maturation of the soul on Earth means fulfilling its worldly desires, which can only be experienced through a body.
"A man who is interested in separating himself from worldly desires teamed up with a burglar?"
Abandoning worldly desires, one might then enter into what he called "silent Solitude."
In Buddhist theology it encompasses a release from worldly desires.