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The defects of worldly enjoyments


1.     The defects of worldly enjoyments



A.    – Human life is a series of experiences whether good are bad.
--These enjoyments are experienced through senses.
--Senses get contact with worldly objects and perceive experiences.
WORLDLY ENJOYMENTS HAVE THE FOLLOWING DEFECTS.
Worldly enjoyments have a beginning and an end.
Anything that has a beginning has an end, So they are not permanent. They are illusory and impermanent. Worldly enjoyments do not give permanent peace to individual.
They are riddled with pain.
--Mind passes through senses and obtains experiences.
--The five senses always contact with worldly objects and enjoys pancha-tan -matras which are Sabdha, Sparsa, Rupa, Rasa, and Gandha.
--Each and every sensory enjoyment belongs to one category which is said as above.
--Though they are five types of enjoyments they in turn give only two experiences.
-- They are Sukha(Happiness), and Dukha(Unhappiness).
-- The same object which gives happiness in one time doesn’t give happiness forever. Sometimes itself turns into misery also.
They dissipate one`s energy,
--Individual craves for one enjoyment or the other continuously.
-- When senses are continuously involved in sensory enjoyment they lost their vigour. They dissipate one`s energy. Constant sensory enjoyment makes individual week and feeble.  So activity of mind and senses must be curtailed. 
They leave a gnawing sense of incompleteness at the end.
--Worldly enjoyments are purely temporary enjoyments. They give incomplete happiness. In the beginning they may be enjoyable but at the end they leave incompleteness. Hence sensory control is advised.
--They create attachment
Worldly enjoyments create attachment. These attachments lead to rebirth. Karma-bondage-birth-again karma-again bondage and again janma. Likewise the cycle of births ans deaths continue forever.
Dr A. Tara Lakshmi, 
Srikalakasti

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