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Here, satsang provides constant bliss. Elsewhere outside there is no bliss to be found. That is why people derive pleasure from things they believe gives them pleasure. The pleasure they derive is based on their beliefs rather than their knowledge( experience). Worldly pleasure arises from wrong beliefs. It would be fine if one is even aware of this fact but he does not make any progress because of his prevailing wrong belief. Even if he were to critically analyze the nature of pleasure, he would be able to understand its illusion and imaginary nature. But as long as these wrong beliefs prevail, he will find pleasure only in transient things.
If positive circumstances come together, pleasure( sookha) arises and when negative circumstances come together, pain( dookha) arises. If a person gets into a company of gamblers and drunkards, then those circumstances will make him miserable and if he encounters circumstances are to sit in satsang, then pleasure will arise. By the company one keeps one can understand the nature of his suffering, whether it is one of pleasure or pain.
Real and imaginary pain
The Self does not have any pain or suffering. Pain and suffering is experienced by some other entity, but because there is no understanding of this, one takes on the misery on to himself. Misery is not having food to eat or water to drink for days. Despite having food and water, the mind that is spoilt( dusham mun) will collect a stock of pain and misery. How can one call this pain and misery? Suffering is not having food to eat, or clothes to wear, or a place to sleep; these are miseries. How can you say you are suffering when you have all these? People are miserable because their minds have become spoilt and when the mind becomes healthy( susham), they will become happy. When the mind becomes spoilt, it invites anxieties even when