You are right, Avisek Banerjee. Physical pleasures truly bar the way to the divine delight that is ever at hand. And the propensities for such must be washed off in the tears of love divine (bhakti), through selfless work performed (karma), through meditative psychic control (dhyana) and through intelligent discrimination between the real and the unreal (jnana). These four paths are open to us as we wend our way through the labyrinth of life en route to the summit of realisations where the trinity of absolute existence, absolute consciousness and absolute bliss meet in a harmonic singularity that knows no duality save in shadowy projection of the unreal self and its corollary, the universe of name and form.
At heart we are ever free and abide in bliss untainted by aught of earth but surface contamination of matter inexplicably holds us in its thrall through the projection of primeval ignorance (avidya) which for every soul (embodied entity) has its pyre set for its inevitable funeral in perfected perception of the Self (Atman) within.
Thus, it is true that the superimposition of the corporeal frame on the spiritual Self and the pleasures, finite and fleeting, accruing to the dependent self thereof do hinder the outflow of the divine delight from the recesses within and it is only by the purification of the psycho-physical self completely that this ethereal joy, ever at hand as you rightly put it, may be perceived in truth.
Written by Sugata Bose
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