Generally speaking, one gets easily
drawn to sense objects, as one becomes
a victim of instincts.
Instincts readily seek sense objects.
Instincts come along with the body and
do not require any training, just as an infant
and the new born calf nestles at the udder.
But for the infant to walk and talk,
training is necessary. They are not automatic.
These skills are prompted by example and imitation by others.
So also, training is essential for the proper
pursuit of sense pleasure, for it is the wild,
untrained search for such pleasure that promotes
anger, hatred, envy, malice and conceit.
To train them along salutary lines
and to hold them under control, certain
good disciplines such as repetition of God’s Name,
meditation and fasting are essentiale.
