IIT Delhi: Joy is the pleasure of ascension

The following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant.

Questioner (Q): Is pleasure a necessity for humans? Do we as human beings need pleasure for survival, to be sane?

Acharya Prashant (AP): What is pleasure, first of all? See, we all operate at a certain level of the mind, call it the level of consciousness — you can take that as…