In its unrelenting focus on power, achievement and sensual gratification, it breeds a culture, both inner and outer, of oppression, insecurity, addiction and loneliness.
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Sometime later, Rosaura becomes pregnant. One day, Pedro brings Tita a bouquet of roses to celebrate Tita being the head cook. Mama Elena demands that Tita throw them away, but Tita instead uses them to create a rose sauce for a quail dinner. While eating the meal, everyone except Rosaura becomes filled with sensual gratification.
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He lived luxuriously, was happy to seek sensual gratification and the company of the notorious Lais. He also took money for his teaching, the first of Socrates' disciples to do soBeing the first of the disciples of Socrates who did so . and even told Socrates that he resided in a foreign land in order to escape the trouble of involving himself in the politics of his native city.Xenophon, Memorabilia, ii. 1.
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Bhaktisiddhanta argued instead that the path to spiritual growth was not through what he described as sensual gratification, but through the practice of chastity, humility, and service. At the same time, Bhaktisiddhanta's approach to the material world was far from being escapist. Rather than shunning all connections with it, he adopted the principle of yukta-vairagya – a term coined by Chaitanya's associate Rupa Gosvami meaning "renunciation by engagement". This implied using any required object in the service of the divine by renouncing the propensity to enjoy it.
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Structure known as "el Baño del Rey" Texcotzingo was designed and created by Nezahualcoyotl, the then-ruler of Texcoco, in the 15th century. These imperial gardens were used to collect and display plant and animal specimens, aiming towards an encyclopedic understanding of the flora and fauna of the whole of the Aztec empire, as well as the cultivation of medicinal plants. They were conceived as a place for sensual gratification on one hand and as a recreation of paradise on the other. Dedicated to the rain god Tlaloc, (He Who Makes the Plants Spring Up), Texcotzingo was designed by incorporating Aztec myths through sculpture depicting gods and observances of sacred numbers (such as the number 52).
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The philosopher's duty, he wrote, was to establish a "virtuous" society by healing the souls of the people, establishing justice and guiding them towards "true happiness".Butterworth, p278 Of course, al- Farabi realized that such a society was rare and required a very specific set of historical circumstances to be realized, which means very few societies could ever attain this goal. He divided those "vicious" societies, which have fallen short of the ideal "virtuous" society, into three categories: ignorant, wicked and errant. Ignorant societies have, for whatever reason, failed to comprehend the purpose of human existence, and have supplanted the pursuit of happiness for another (inferior) goal, whether this be wealth, sensual gratification or power.
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At the close of the Kama Sutra this is what he writes about himself: > After reading and considering the works of Babhravya and other ancient > authors, and thinking over the meaning of the rules given by them, this > treatise was composed, according to the precepts of the Holy Writ, for the > benefit of the world, by Vatsyayana, while leading the life of a religious > student at Benares, and wholly engaged in the contemplation of the Deity. > This work is not to be used merely as an instrument for satisfying our > desires. A person acquainted with the true principles of this science, who > preserves his Dharma (virtue or religious merit), his Artha (worldly wealth) > and his Kama (pleasure or sensual gratification), and who has regard to the > customs of the people, is sure to obtain the mastery over his senses. In > short, an intelligent and knowing person attending to Dharma and Artha and > also to Kama, without becoming the slave of his passions, will obtain > success in everything that he may do.
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