Questioner: Acharyaji, my question is that the greed of getting more and more pleasure is increasing with time, and finally I’m finding myself getting stuck in the vicious circle of getting more and more pleasure. Sir, what are the ways that you could suggest to me to get out of it?
Acharya Prashant: Get some real pleasure, get some real pleasure. Real pleasure has a quality to it, and when you have that quality, then your hunger for quantity diminishes. If you keep looking for more and more pleasure, chances are you’re not getting pleasure anywhere. Had you been getting at somewhere, you would have stopped at that point, right? Because you don’t get it anywhere, that’s why you want it everywhere.
So look for the right place, where real pleasure can be had. For that, you’ll have to first of all test, whether all these places that promise pleasure to you, are of any avail. They promise they attract, they also extract a lot, but do they really deliver? And maintain the faith that the real thing is not inaccessible. You’re born to achieve the real thing and you can get it. But not if you remain attracted to, and engaged with all the little and false stuff. Then the little things will keep you forever away from the real deal.
Questioner: Yes sir. Sir, the reason I asked this question is, that society has this mentality that crack a certain exam, and you’ll get the pleasures after that. You’ll live a life of pleasure after that. Like if anyone is aspiring to crack UPSC, then he’s taught that just crack this exam, after that you’ll have cars, and servants around you, and you’ll get pleasure from that.
