Pain and Pleasure || Acharya Prashant

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00:00I don't know swimming. You have thrown me into a pond. I'm going to be asphyxiated, finished.

00:05And you have just taken out a fish from the pond and you throw it back into the water.

00:11What is that for the fish?

00:12Pleasure.

00:13So pain and pleasure depend on my prakritic composition that the difference is just bodily, right?

00:19My lungs are not designed to extract oxygen from water.

00:23I can have oxygen only from air.

00:25But if you look at the fish, its body is designed to extract oxygen even from water.

00:32So the fish happily lives there.

00:33Difference is just physical.

00:35And the physical difference becomes the difference between pain and pleasure.

00:39That's what he's saying.

00:40Your pain and pleasure are defined by your physical and mental constitution.

00:46There is nothing absolute in them.

00:48They are relative to who you are.