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Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
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some pain which is usually associated with it, in this imperfect earthly life, he would come to complete grief and disappointment, for nowhere on the earth can there exist pleasure without pain. The earthly life (Saṁsāra ) can never give us the absolute happiness; for the attainment of happiness (Sukha) itself requires a lot of work and labour, trouble and exhaustion which causes fatigue, worry and physical and mental uneasiness. Thus, the acquisition of happiness involves much of pain and suffering, and moreover, as we live in the space-time dimensions every event that we have here on this earth is transient. Every pleasurable experience that we have here, is bound to come to an end resulting into the loss of it. Thus, after the particular pleasurable experiences are over, at the end we reach a non-pleasurable event. The body also is not capable of enjoying sermons and intellectual pleasures illimitably because of its physical limitations. However pleasant an experience may be, the body feels saturated with it at some time and it can no more derive pleasure from an object or situation which can still yield happiness. After enjoying physical and mental pleasures because of its limited capacities the body feels exhausted, and hence, it experiences fatigue and it no more wants the continuation of the pleasurable experience but it becomes eager to stop the pleasur. able experience. An individual, thus, can never enjoy continuous and unending happiness with his limited capacities. All pleasurable experiences are bound to lead ultimately to non-pleasurable experience which either is a void or sometimes painful due to excess
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