Pleasure Seeking || Acharya Prashant

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00:00Is it necessary to renounce worldly pleasures in order to gain spiritual experience?

00:04No, but where are the pleasures? I do not see any pleasures. I do not see anybody being pleased.

00:10You are talking of renunciation of pleasures as if pleasures do exist. Where are pleasures?

00:16Go to a weekend party and show me who is happy. And if people were indeed happy, why would they drink?

00:22They drink so that they can forget their miserable state.

00:25Who is being pleased in all this? Please tell me.

00:28But, you know, we like to pamper ourselves. We flatter ourselves when we say,

00:33Oh, I am living a life of pleasures and spirituality will snatch away my pleasures.

00:40So, should I consider spirituality or not? What kind of bluster is this?

00:45Nobody is happy here. Please.