Cheap Pleasures or Highest Joy || Acharya Prashant

Full video: This pleasure is very necessary || Acharya Prashant at IIT-Delhi (2022)

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00:00Spirituality is about having great pleasures.

00:03The kind of pleasures that normal people cannot even think of.

00:06Do not think that the spiritual person leads a boring or dull or dead life.

00:12No, the really spiritual person is drunk on pleasure.

00:15You cannot imagine his state of inner euphoria.

00:19He is ecstatic on something that is totally unavailable to the commons.

00:24Joy is for the real human being, for the real adult.

00:28Cheap pleasures are for kids.

00:30Go for the highest joys in life.

00:32That's what makes life worth living.

00:34Go for tough attainments.

00:36And by tough attainments, I do not mean things that you get by competing with a million other people.

00:43They are not tough attainments.

00:45If a million people want the same thing that you do, then you are just one of them.

00:49The toughest attainment is about wanting something that no one else wants.