Spirituality is about having great pleasures; the kind of pleasure that normal people cannot even think of. Do not think that the spiritual person leads a boring or dull or dead life. No. The really spiritual person is drunk on pleasure. You cannot imagine his state of inner euphoria. He is ecstatic about something that is totally unavailable to the common. Read more....
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Acharya Prashant: The question is: Is pleasure a necessity? Do we human beings actually require pleasure for survival? What is pleasure, first of all? See, we all operate at a certain level of the mind. Call it the level of consciousness. You can take that as our current potential level. This is where we stand (places his hand to signify a certain level) and our potentiality is huge, tremendous (raises his other hand to signify a higher level). So, you stand here and your potentiality is huge. Now, what will happen when you connect these two points of differing potentials? What happens when you connect two points having potential differences? There is a flow. It could be the flow of water or the flow of electrons. Let’s say, electrons, current. This flow is called pleasure. Something is happening, something is happening. I was at this level (lower level), I have been connected to something at this level (higher level) and so there is a flow. And I'm hopeful, I am liking the experience. Something is happening. Are you getting it?
This is the right kind of pleasure. The pleasure of ascension, the pleasure of rising up, the pleasure of flying high. Unfortunately, for us human beings, another kind of pleasure is possible. You connect this level of your potential (current lower level) to a place that has only this level (signifying an even lower state of consciousness)
