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Instead you should be surprised by the fact that this
dreadful birth cycle doesn’t pinch you and being completely
indifferent to it you are basking in the glory of materialistic
comforts and luxuries.
Actually, we do not want to visualize the terrible consequences
of materialistic pleasures as well as anger, greed, ego, etc. but
we want to enjoy the momentary pleasures derived out of
them. Thus, all efforts to obtain these instruments of joy, to
retain and enjoy them seem easy and natural but to forsake
all these seems surprising.
7. A True Jain’s Prayer 37
