Pleasure and pain...

Every pleasure, physical or mental, needs
an instrument.

Both the physical and mental
instruments are materials, they get tired and
worn out.

The pleasure they yield is necessarily
limited in intensity and duration.

Pain is the
background of all your pleasures.

You want them
because you suffer.

On the other hand, the very
search for pleasure is the cause of pain.

It is a
vicious circle.



- Nisargadatta Maharaj

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"I Am That"
Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The Acorn Press, 1973