“Pleasure has desire in it. Desire is pain. There is no satisfaction. So pleasure is pain.”
Baba Hari Dass (1923–2018) master yogi, author, builder, commentator of Indian spiritual tradition
Source: The Yellow Book, 1974, p.65
“There is pleasure when a sore is scratched,
But to be without sores is more pleasurable still.
Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires,
But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.”
§ 169
Major attributed works, Ratnāvalī (Precious Garland)
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