The Kathopanishad : The Science of Inner Life -2. Swami Krishnananda
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The pleasant, on the other hand, is intimately connected with the body, and prevents a person from choosing the good. One falls down from one's aim if one chooses the pleasant, because one shall never be able to possess the pleasant objects for ever, and, also, these objects are false appearances and not real existences.
One cannot pursue the good and the pleasant at the same time, even as light and darkness cannot be perceived in the same place.
One who chooses the good should reject the pleasant and take refuge in the super mundane Truth, though it is invisible. The good does not come quickly, though the pleasant may do so. The Real is the unseen. One who pursues the Real attains the blessed state of eternity, but that short-sighted and dull-witted person who pursues the pleasant is separated from the objects of his desire, and he shall mourn for their death and take birth for their sake.
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"Both the good and the pleasant come to a person."
"The wise one prefers the good to the pleasant, and the stupid one chooses the pleasant, for the sake of protecting and fattening the body and ego."
All run after the pleasant alone and not after the good, because the pleasant is connected with the present limited life. The good is not longed for, because it is trans empirical. The good and the pleasant are opposite to each other, like the two poles. One cuts the tree of Samsara, and the other waters it.
Those who justify sense-enjoyments are blind men guided by blind philosophies and they fall into deep pits. All enjoyment is mere friction of nerves. It does not merely bring pain but is the very form of misery itself. A sensation cannot be called bliss, and all worldly experiences are sensations.
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2. The Good and the Pleasant
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2.1"The good is one thing and the pleasant is another."
They have different aims, and they drag a person from different directions. Of these two, he who chooses the good obtains blessedness, but he who chooses the pleasant falls from his aim. The good is that which leads one to God or the Absolute. It gives the freedom of Moksha or liberation from Samsara. It is not pleasant, because it is against body-consciousness. It destroys what is pleasant and, hence, is rather painful.The pleasant, on the other hand, is intimately connected with the body, and prevents a person from choosing the good. One falls down from one's aim if one chooses the pleasant, because one shall never be able to possess the pleasant objects for ever, and, also, these objects are false appearances and not real existences.
"All pleasant things shall vanish, and only the good shall remain."
One cannot pursue the good and the pleasant at the same time, even as light and darkness cannot be perceived in the same place.
One who chooses the good should reject the pleasant and take refuge in the super mundane Truth, though it is invisible. The good does not come quickly, though the pleasant may do so. The Real is the unseen. One who pursues the Real attains the blessed state of eternity, but that short-sighted and dull-witted person who pursues the pleasant is separated from the objects of his desire, and he shall mourn for their death and take birth for their sake.
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"Both the good and the pleasant come to a person."
"But the wise man discriminates between the two."
"The wise one prefers the good to the pleasant, and the stupid one chooses the pleasant, for the sake of protecting and fattening the body and ego."
All run after the pleasant alone and not after the good, because the pleasant is connected with the present limited life. The good is not longed for, because it is trans empirical. The good and the pleasant are opposite to each other, like the two poles. One cuts the tree of Samsara, and the other waters it.
Those who justify sense-enjoyments are blind men guided by blind philosophies and they fall into deep pits. All enjoyment is mere friction of nerves. It does not merely bring pain but is the very form of misery itself. A sensation cannot be called bliss, and all worldly experiences are sensations.
"Those who believe in the reality of this present world alone and do not care for the existence of another plane of life get attached to this world, and, thus, have to experience births and deaths, incessantly."
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