"Cheap Thrills" || Acharya Prashant

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00:00 My question is, is pleasure a necessity for humans?

00:03 Pleasure is greatly important.

00:04 We all definitely need pleasure, but we need pleasure of the upward kind.

00:10 Instead the market serves us pleasures of the downward kind.

00:14 The lowly kinds of pleasures are cheap.

00:16 You can get them very easily.

00:17 Go get drunk.

00:18 Go fall in a brothel and those lowly pleasures will be very easily available to you.

00:22 Go binge and then fall asleep knowing fully well that you have assignments to submit.

00:26 There is pleasure, right?

00:27 Is there not pleasure in that?

00:28 Most of our pleasures degrade us.

00:30 So much so that the word pleasure has become synonymous with fall.

00:35 You would hardly find anyone rising in pleasure.

00:37 If you want to see somebody falling, go and watch his moments of pleasure.

00:41 Those will be the moments in which he will be falling in life.

00:44 That's the sad situation we have come to.

00:46 But that's not necessary.

00:47 In fact, without pleasure you cannot rise.

00:50 That is the importance of pleasure.

00:51 And that kind of pleasure that takes you higher, there is a special name for it.