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Sense gratification is lack of gratitude for the One beyond senses
The following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant.
Question (Q): What is sense gratification?
Acharya Prashant (AP): There are these senses; Eyes, Ears, and all. Sense gratification is to provide the senses with what pleases them. The eyes like to look at pleasing figures, and forms. The ears want to hear what they are programmed to be pleased with. The tongue wants to taste something that it likes. That is sense gratification. Right?
The question is philosophers, and scriptures all seem to be against sense gratification. And in general, it is related that sense gratification and indulgence in sex, in all kinds of pleasing and gratifying activities, all go together. So in general it is assumed that sense gratification is a thing to be condemned. But the questioner is saying that I want sense gratification.
Sense gratification is not an issue, not at all. It is not an issue at all because the senses are anyways looking at the beautiful. You want sense gratification only when you assume that they are not being gratified. Go into this.
To want something is sure proof that you do not feel that you already have that thing, right? When do you want something? It is when you believe that you do not have…
