Acharya Prashant explains that the pleasures of consciousness are not the pleasures of the body. The body has its pleasures, and consciousness has a totally different dimension of pleasure. That which pleases the body is not that which pleases consciousness. However, the two become one because our consciousness is body-consciousness. Consciousness not entangled with the body seeks a destination of a totally different nature, while the body seeks pleasures of its own kind. The pleasures that the two are seeking are widely separate. For those in the business of pleasing the body, the speaker invites them to try experiencing the pleasures of consciousness, stating that they will forget all about the pleasures of the body. The pleasures of the body inflate and reinforce the body, whereas the pleasures of consciousness dissolve the consciousness. The more pleasures you give to the body, the more body-identified you become. Conversely, the more pleasures you give to consciousness, the more all identifications dissolve. The speaker distinguishes between the two types of pleasure by their names: the pleasures of the body are called 'sukh' (happiness), and the pleasures of consciousness are called 'ananda' (joy). When you are consciousness itself, without its traps and identifications, and you are trying to please consciousness alone, it can result in displeasure to the body, which is alright. This is because the quality of the pleasure of consciousness is far higher than the quality of the pleasure of the body. Since consciousness usually gets attached to the body, you need to give it something better than the body to be with. This will greatly please consciousness and probably annoy the body. Listening to the speaker is an example of pleasing the consciousness, not the body. The pleasure of consciousness is described as doubts receding, peace prevailing, and complexities getting dissolved. It is a pleasure of disappearance, similar to the pleasures of sleep.
