Question: What is pleasure?

Answer: Pleasure is the sensation one feels when one’s desire is fulfilled.

Question: What is the difference between spiritual pleasure and regular pleasure?

Answer: You receive corporeal (animate) pleasures when you yourself are personally fulfilled inside your sensations. They are limited to the desires for food, sex, family, wealth, fame, power, and knowledge. These are the egoistic pleasures of our world.

You receive spiritual pleasures, on the other hand, by uniting with other desires (not with your own, but with those that seem to you as external, others) based on love for the neighbor. Then, by fulfilling others’ desires, which become your own, you thereby receive pleasure.

This pleasure is unlimited and perfect. This pleasure is called spiritual because in it you begin to experience pleasures outside of yourself. They are not limited by quality or measure or time. You become included in this process and you thus feel the eternal flow of life.

These desires are endless and unlimited, and you have a constant opportunity to expand and fulfill them. Therefore, the sensation of this kind of existence is called eternal life.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. What Is Pleasure?” 2/21/11

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