How is sense pleasure not imaginary but a product of imagination?
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thank you so what do we mean by when we say that sense pleasure is not imaginary but it is a product of imagination what I meant is that there is real pleasure in sense gratification Taladana also says that in the same verse he uses two things so first he says so first he says it is like a mirage but then after that he also says that it is so it is a it is like a drop of honey so in a mirage there is no water a drop of honey means there is some drop now if we consider from our perspective that there is a in Vyaktasanaru Sindhu as well as in the Kaushitaki Upanishad there is a hierarchy of pleasures given in today’s Bhagavatam also it was quoted that the happiness of bhakti is so millions of times more than brahman that hierarchy actually goes down further the happiness of swarga is thousands of times more than of earth the happiness of brahma loka is more than that of swarga like that so now if we have this hierarchy where the higher happiness is thousand times more or million times more what that means is at the bottom also you cannot have zero if you have zero then everything becomes zero thousand times or million times or zero will remain zero there is some pleasure here but as compared to that this is very small so in sense gratification there is pleasure so in that sense it is not imaginary but what it means it is a product of imagination is the quantity of pleasure we think it will be so huge it will be so wonderful how can I live without it so that is the product of imagination so what we can do is we can avoid that kind of imagination if we think there is a little pleasure over there it will not be all the things that people do to get sense gratification they would not be impelled to do that if they thought there is just a little pleasure over there but by the imagination they start thinking that there is so much pleasure over there so it is like there is a drop over there but by imagination we think it is a ocean over there so that is what we need to avoid any other questions yeah