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THE WAY OF LIFE
sensual and physical pleasures. The propensity to compete with others in exhibiting their affluence and splendour has become stronger now-a-days. Even those people who possess enough means to attain sensual and physical pleasures are getting entangled in situations that are replete with agitations and difficulties. Even wealthy people are agitated by such evils as weakness, sickness, excitements, the ingratitude of relatives, the hostility of friends etc. Though men possess enough means and comforts, how worried and agitated they are ! Agitations and worries do arise in life. A man who is attached to sensual desires and physical enjoyments cannot be healthy, peaceful and cheerful. Physically, he grows weak; from the economic point of view, he becomes poor; in the eyes of the members of the family, he becomes untrustworthy and from the social point of view, he becomes lonely and alienated.
Do you at any time remove the mask that has enveloped your heart and look into it? How much pain, how much anxiety..how much search....and how much despair abound behind the outwardly splendid and attractive sensual enjoyments! How shallow man has become? Will human dignity and decency end in this state of confusion and disorder in which everyone is seeking his own interest ? People to-day are living in such a condition that nothing can remain in it except panic, ignobility, trickery and hypocrisy. The whole atmosphere has become poisoned and polluted.
THINK AND UNDERSTAND THE MEANING OF PLEASURES AND ENJOYMENTS
The man who, forgetting and neglecting the Dharmapurushartha which brings welfare in this world and in the other world; and the Arthapurushartha which is necessary to fulfil the mundane desires, plunges into sensual and physical pleasures, causes ruin to himself and to his family.
Man should keep himself aware of the importance of the Arthapurushartha and the Dharmapurushartha while he is pursuing the Kamapurushartha. Man cannot fulfil his physical and sensual desires without money. You should spend only so
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