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time but increases more and more as the quality and quantity of service improves. Again, whenever the service rendered is recalled in future, the heart is filled with waves of happiness and freshness.
The sensory pleasures end in drying of life sustaining sap and as the time spent in indulgence passes, the sap keeps drying but the pleasure of service always remains fresh and luscious. Even when the person whose trouble was mitigated by rendering service does not remain, the pleasure of service rendered to him is recalled with nostalgia and happiness. This pleasure is never destroyed. The pleasure of the taste of service is neither destroyed nor satiated nor does it disappear. It is wholesome. It does not come from without and springs from within. It is a spiritual and not a physical pleasure. Its roots are deeply entrenched in the innermost cockles of the heart and it remains ever fresh.
The dryness that comes about on drying of vital sap in enjoying the sensory pleasures gives rise to further desire. The pleasure to be derived in sensory enjoyment and succumbing to desires is prone to destruction. Therefore it wanes and is eventually destroyed. This results in drying of the vital body juices and resultant emptiness in life. No one likes sapless emptiness in life and, therefore, to overcome the boredom brought about by this sapless emptiness fresh desires awaken. The reason for this is that from time immemorial we have been conditioned to believe that pleasure is in sensory enjoyment and we are always trying to derive satisfaction in fulfilling our desires. The pleasure that is derived by pursuing sensory desires keeps diminishing and is eventually destroyed and the same condition of sapless emptiness comes about all over again. Like this, the vicious cycle of fulfilment and reawakening of desires goes on endlessly.
This vicious cycle of fulfilment and reawakening of desires can be broken only when the need for pleasure is fulfilled in any way other than that of sensory enjoyment. At the same time the pleasure so derived must be of a permanent nature. Such a permanent pleasure cannot be derived from any of the externally obtained physical objects, because such objects themselves are impermanent and separation from them is
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