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THE WAY OF LIFE
holder in carrying out his spiritual endeavours (Dharmapuru. shartha). How can a weak and unsatisfied man carry out spiritual endeavours? Even if he carries out some spiritual endeavours, he does so unwillingly. He carries out spiritual endeavours with a distorted and disabled mind. Unsatisfied senses bring about difficulties even in the pursuit of Arthapurushartha. Therefore, the proper pursuit of the Kamapurushartha, is considered useful in the case of a grihastha.
It is one thing to satisfy the senses by giving them a proper satisfaction; but living only to seek the gratification of the sensual desires is wholly a different matter. You must carry out your endeavours relating to the Kamapurushartha in such a way that the Dharmapurushartha and the Arthapurushartha are not affected. Just as it is not proper to neglect the Arthapurushartha and the Kamapurushartha while pursuing the Dharmapurushartha, it is not proper to pursue the Kamapurushartha neglecting the Dharmapurushartha and the Arthapurushartho. Those who neglect them will surely come to grief. They will have to experience agonies and anguish.
THE WORLD IS MAD AFTER ADVERTISEMENTS
The jivas that are interested only in the pursuit of one sense (Indriya) lose their lives. Do you not know this? When that is so what kind of ruin awaits those who pursue the pleasures of all the five senses? You yourselves guess it. The calamity lies in the fact that the bazaars of the world abound in attractive and fascinating objects, arranged artistically. Ignorant people, wherever they go, become fascinated by attractive objects; and begin insisting upon securing them. They do not realise even the point whether those objects are useful to them or not.
The desire for sensual pleasures has been existing in the jivatma from times immemorial. When man sees in the world, the objects that provoke those desires, then craving for sensual pleasures grows stronger; and what is there which one cannot get in this world ? In this world, every object to satisfy
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