Go For Pleasure! || Acharya Prashant

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

Transcript

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.