“Eat this; see this; touch this – and you will enjoy.” The world glamorizes sense gratification thus. In striking contrast, the Bhagavad-gita (05.22) asserts that such sense pleasures are sources of misery? The Gita later reiterates this theme metaphorically: sensual pleasures taste like nectar in the beginning and poison in the end (18.38). How can the same things both fascinate by being like nectar and frustrate by being like poison? Read more › “Eat this; see this; touch this – and you will enjoy.” The world glamorizes sense gratification thus. In striking contrast, the Bhagavad-gita (05.22) asserts that such sense pleasures are sources of misery? The Gita later reiterates this theme metaphorically: sensual pleasures taste like nectar in the beginning and poison in the end (18.38). How can the same things both fascinate by being like nectar and frustrate by being like poison? Read more ›