17 July 2014 - QA 10

Dearest Gurudev, what is spiritual pleasure seeking? I want to make sure that I am not shifting my pleasure seeking from the material world to the spiritual.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:

Pleasure seeking is when you are focused only on yourself. 'Beg, borrow or steal, whatever it does to others is okay but I should be comfortable', this is a pleasure seeking tendency. You don’t care for others or for discipline, or for what anyone says. Just do what gives you pleasure, unmindful of logic or reasoning and only focused on yourself, this is pleasure seeking. That will definitely put you through a lot of problem and will not elevate you.