Discard Sense-Enjoyments
REMEMBER: so long as the idea persists in your mind that pleasure abides in the objects of sense-enjoyment you can never reach the precincts of true happiness, In the Gita the Lord has termed such enjoyment as the soil productive of sorrow.
So long as you imagine there is pleasurableness in the objects of sense-enjoyment you cannot renounce them either. Even if you outwardly give up a particular object of enjoyment for some reason, the feeling will persist in your mind that there was pleasurableness in the object you have given up. Thus your notion with regard to its pleasurableness will remain unchanged. This will mean that mentally you have not renounced it.
As long as your mind recognises the objects of sense-enjoyment as of some worth their real renunciation is quite out of the question. They haunt the memory and they also continue to be accepted in one form or the other and during their acceptance they do not arouse the least aversion or hostile feeling. Nay, in order to cloak the impropriety or establish the propriety of one’s conduct in this behalf such conduct is labelled as evenmindedness, which is a dangerous form of self-deception and nothing else.
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