Pleasure in Meditation and Sensual Enjoyment...Ramana

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Q: There is more pleasure in meditation then in sensual enjoyment and yet the

mind seeks the latter and not the former. Why is that.

Bhagavan: Pleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature

is happiness, but we have forgotten the Self and imagine that the body or mind

is the Self. It is this wrong identification that gives rise to misery. What

is to be done? This tendency is very deep-rooted and has continued for many

past births and so has grown strong. It will have to go before the essential

nature, which is happiness, can be realized.