IIT Kharagpur: The false promise of pleasure

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

Questioner (Q): I find myself in a vicious cycle of wanting more and more pleasure all the time. How can I get out of it?

Acharya Prashant (AP): Get some real pleasure. Real pleasure has a quality to it, and when you have that quality then your hunger for quantity diminishes. If…