Srimad Bhagavad - Gita

============================================================== ============================================================== Monday, April 11, 2022. 19:00. Chapter-18 The Yoga of the Liberation of  Spirit -5. ============================================================== Likewise is emotion. The feeling of pleasure or satisfaction which impels all emotions is also of three kinds. The highest kind of the satisfaction of emotion is that which is permanent and abiding in the end, though requiring some painful effort in the beginning. Generally we seek pleasure at the very outset. We do not want to work hard because work is pain; we hate effort of every kind. “Why should I do anything?” Because, to do anything is unpleasant to the ego. But we do not understand that all worthwhile things in life are preceded by some exertion. That which is painful in the beginning but pleasant in the end, perpetually—that satisfaction or pleasure is sattvika. But that which is pleasant in the beginning...