What happens when one leads a prudent life?

While warning about perils of leading a promiscuous life, Krishna understands that complete abstinence from pleasures is not possible.

Krishna has a sane and practical advice.

"Enjoy the pleasures without losing control over yourselves. Don’t let your sense organs and the mind go totally disarray. Make sure that your acts don’t lead to undue attachment or hatred towards anyone or anything. “

It is like remaining untouched by dirt while being in a dirty pond – just the way a lotus does.

What does one gain by doing all that?

Krishna says

"That makes the mind calm. And a calm mind does not get trapped in misery.

As against this, if one allows his sense organs and the mind to go after worldly pleasures, unhindered, his intellect would eventually get totally chaotic in the same way a fierce wind would drag a boat into destruction.

A person who keeps craving for pleasures, would never get them to his satisfaction and he continues to be miserable. But a person who does not go after chasing pleasures, would get all the happiness. It is in the same way how all rivers run towards the ocean, while the ocean never crosses its limits and stays majestically.”

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Based on verses 2.64, 2.65, 2.67, and 2.70, of Bhagavad Geetha, one of the most quoted and widely translated of the ancient Indian scriptures, believed to have been composed by Vyasa as part of the great Indian Epic Mahabharata, 5000 years ago. The interpretation of the verses and audio recital are by Dr.King (Copyright © 2018 Dr. King)