Sense gratification is lack of gratitude for the One beyond senses|| Acharya Prashant, with students
Speaker: What is sense gratification?
There are these senses; Eyes, Ears and all. Sense gratification is to provide the senses with what pleases them. The eyes like to look at pleasing figures, forms. The ears want to hear what they are programmed to be pleased with. The tongue wants to taste something that it likes. That is sense gratification. Right?
The question is philosophers, scriptures they all seem to be against sense gratification. And in general, it is related that sense gratification and indulgence in sex, in all kinds of pleasing and gratifying activities, they all go together. So in general it is assumed that sense gratification is a thing to be condemned. But the questioner is saying that I want sense gratification.
Sense gratification is not an issue, not at all. It is not an issue at all because senses are anyways looking at the beautiful. You want sense gratification only when you assume that they are not being gratified. Go into this.
To want something is a sure proof that you do not feel that you already have that thing, right? When do you want something? It is when you believe that you do not have it already,that there is something missing! When you feel that something is missing, you want it, right?
This wanting is at the core of all suffering.Wanting in itself is not bad at all. Please understand this. Wanting is just a system. The real disease is the assumption is that I don’t have it. We have been told by wise men, by holy books that there is something wrong with desire, with wants. But desires and wants are products of something else. What is that something else? That something else is the assumption, is the belief that I lack in something. Do you understand this?
