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Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
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sarily causes a kind of disappointment and sorrow in him. Every moment he experiences something new, but the beginning of that pleasant experience proves to be an end of it. The moment he begins to experience pleasure he faces sorrow because the experience terminates immediately in the same moment. One may experience a series of separate pleasant experiences, but that experience is not a unitary whole. It is like a chain of separate beads, wherein each has its own peculiarity. One embraces a thing or invites a pleasurable experience with a fond hope that it would last long and will bring to him unceasing satisfaction; but what he finds in actuality is just the contrary of it. His pleasuress or agreeable experiences along with those, which are painful, have only momentary life. His urge to seek lasting pleasure remains unsatisfied. His craving to seek and enjoy happiness becomes more and more sharp and intense, but the objects of happiness being transient in their nature, fail to satisfy his craving permanently. Because everything is transient, it is also painful. Pleasure and pain are thus inseparable. The impermanence of the experiences thus creates a sense of deprivation. Pain becomes more powerful than pleasure. Pain overcomes pleasure. Transitoriness means disappearance, which means deprivation, which finally means sorrow and suffering. Because everything is momentary and life is a series of such momentary experiences, life becomes synonymous with sorrow and suffering. Paul Dahlke, therefore, makes sorrow and transiency synonymous. He
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| SR No. | 020053 |
| Book Title | tman_and_moksa |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | G N Joshi |
| Publisher | Gujarat University |
| Publication Year | 1965 |
| Total Pages | 901 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 12 MB |