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 upward kind.
00:08Without pleasure, you cannot rise. And that kind of pleasure that takes you higher, there's a special name for it.
00:15It's called joy. But it's a very demanding and very, very extracting, very expensive pleasure.
00:21The lowly kinds of pleasures are cheap. You can get them very easily.
00:25Go get drunk. Go fall in a brothel. Go binge and then fall asleep, knowing fully well that you have assignments to submit.
00:32There is pleasure in overeating and then falling asleep. Is there not pleasure in that?
00:36Vedanta tells you that without pleasure, you cannot live. It's just that you have to choose the higher kind of pleasure.
00:43You have to choose pleasure that takes you upwards.