Vivekananda Mailing List-10/1/02

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The lower the organization, the greater the pleasure in the senses.

Very few men can eat a meal with the same gusto as a dog or a wolf.

But all the pleasures of the dog or the wolf have gone, as it were

into the senses. The lower types of humanity in all nations find

pleasure in the senses, while the cultured and the educated find it

in thought, in philosophy, in arts and sciences. Spirituality is a

still higher plane. The subject being infinite, that plane is the

highest, and the pleasure there is the highest for those who can

appreciate it. So, even on the utilitarian ground that man is to seek

for pleasure, he should cultivate religious thought, for it is the

highest pleasure that exists. Thus religion, as a study, seems to me

to be absolutely necessary.