Essay on God – Part 5 of 7
Pleasure and Misery
Everyone desires to reach a stage of absolute happiness where he is all the time happy. This is defined as a state of NIRVANA which supposedly brings you to an ultimate state of pleasure.
But the terms pleasure and misery cannot be absolutely defined. It is because they are relative terms. To explain this through an example, let us take an example of a man who is accustomed to have stale bread as his daily meal. If his diet is suddenly changed to something like biryani which is better in taste, he will feel a pleasure. His degree of pleasure is in direct proportion to the degree of improvement in the taste of the food. If he is offered still better food, his pleasure increases further and if one day, it is suddenly continued to supply him with stale bread, he will feel misery. This is because, he has obtained a knowledge of something which enhances his pleasure.
On the other hand, if stale bread is the only available food on earth, the terms pleasure and misery will be meaningless as there is no scope for relative comparison. Even if the supply of a wonderful meal is continued over a long period, without any variation in tastes, a man will be bored, as the feeling of pleasure can be derived only through comparison.
Considering another example, if a man feels he is good looking, it is only in comparison with people who are not as good looking as he. If he is sad in this aspect, it is because of people who are better looking than him.
So, a world of absolute happiness is a world where all people are identical in appearance, have equal intelligence as difference in intelligence will again give rise to certain complexes, and in proportion to the difference, degrees of pleasure and misery will begin to surface. Also everyone should have equal power and artistic abilities. To sum up, each and every individual’s tastes, behavior, appearance, intelligence and capacity of doing work must be same as each and every other individual.
As everyone will be having the same thoughts, there will be no need for speaking with each other, and as every one will have the same abilities, there will be no question of anyone getting interested in anyone. It is a world devoid of competition and initiative. In short, this world will be of the LIVING DEAD.
Categorized as My Life, My Take, Thoughts That Grew Me
August 21st, 2010 at 7:47 PM
so are you a LIVING DEAD now…?? What are you upto now ?? Do you have questions to ask anyone !!
August 21st, 2010 at 7:48 PM
Nice blogs… lots of gyaan…. anything more left in your mind to pen down here…??
September 3rd, 2010 at 8:38 PM
@ Ramu..
The actual meaning of NIRVANA is that you won’t be concerned with any of the comparisons. Even if there are things to compare you don’t want to compare.Because you are in no need.You would have already understood that Happiness is not material like biryani or Daal. So it is an extremity which gives man no concerns.
as extremities look like .. a person LIVING DEAD is also not concerned about anything.
Both can be differentiated as…
<
Both look the same. But they themselves only know the difference .
September 3rd, 2010 at 8:40 PM
in simple terms
andarini vadilesina vaadu sanyasi aithe .. andaru vadilesina vadu sannasi.. They are same at the same time too different.
October 24th, 2010 at 8:51 AM
wow sandeep nice quote you clarified me from confusion of rgvs post.;
October 24th, 2010 at 8:54 AM
another thing in biryani example if you eat biryani, ou want better, every time you need better taste than previous to be pleasure but it is not possible so people came up with a idea about nirvana as it says you have to be happy regardless circumstances, object or materials.