“Dharma”, “Artha”, “Kaama” and “Moksha” are the practical goals that are laid down by the learned. So fooling ourselves is a lot easier than fooling others. Just follow your intellect and become aware of your “drives” and “vaasanas” (in sanskrit). Leave the questioning mind alone coz you own the mind and let it not dictate.

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Sachin
ceo@MoneyActually.com
(p.s. I am a finacial advisor, did my schooling in Ramakrishna Vidyashala)

Ultimate Pleasure is in Self-actualisation. The term “Ultimate Pleasure” has been used to denote self-actualisation.

See, whatever we do is not necessarily for survival. If it was so, you wouldn’t have to work in such a job. A teacher’s job in a school is enough for our survival. But then we aspire for more and call it human nature, in other words what we mean is it’s what the people around us expect us to do that gets manifested in us and becomes our internal need! The more materialistic we get the more we will need to survive.

“Don’t get distracted my immediate pleasures, focus on the ultimate one”

- Why? Who defines this ultimate pleasure/happiness?
For a very normal human being, the immediate pleasures are what is important. After all it’s a materialistic world.

As long as somebody is there to provide me food and shelter, why should I even study for the exams and get a job (assuming that’s the aim)?

So, I study for exams and get a job not becasue I will get ultimate happiness with that. It’s just becasue without that I cannot survive.

The search for ultimate happiness can begin only when you are satisfied with the “present” happiness and yearn for more.

So again, it’s the greed for more happiness… that takes us there.