Full Video: This pleasure is very necessary || Acharya Prashant at IIT-Delhi (2022)
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00:00Pleasure is greatly important, we all definitely need pleasure but we need pleasure of the
00:07upward kind, without pleasure you cannot rise and that kind of pleasure that takes you higher,
00:15there is a special name for it, it's called joy.
00:18But it's a very demanding and very extracting, very expensive pleasure, the lowly kinds of
00:26pleasures are cheap, you can get them very easily, go get drunk, go fall in a brothel,
00:33go binge and then fall asleep, knowing fully well that you have assignments to submit,
00:37there is pleasure in overeating and then falling asleep, is there not pleasure in that?
00:42Vedanta tells you that without pleasure you cannot live, it's just that you have to choose
00:48the higher kind of pleasure, you have to choose pleasure that takes you upwards.