Principle centered living or pleasure centered living?

There are two types of life we can live one is principle centered life and other is pleasure centered life.

Most of the people prefer to live pleasure centered life because it gives so much liberty to live our life as much as we want to enjoy our senses. But in principle centered life there are some limitations, rules, norms we have to follow and there are less freedom to enjoy from our senses.

Now the question is if there are so much rules, norms and regulations are there in Principle centered life then why to live this life instead other side there is pleasure centered life where we have unlimited fulfillment of our senses and without any control.

But our Vedic Scriptures says, pleasure centered life is like a nectar in beginning but poison in end and principle centered life is like poison in beginning and nectar in end.

In principle centered life we live our life based on honesty, humility, determination, hard work, kindness and gratitude but in pleasure centered life we live the way we want to live our life there is no basic principles of life.

We see so many poor people who lived there life based on principle although they have no enough money, no big houses, no cars but still people respect them for their honesty, integrity, humility and God centric life.

But there are people who have Cars, Bungalows, so much money and powers but still people do not give them that much respect because they live pleasure centered life and they have no God centered life at all that is why they do not make connection with the people from their heart.

Principle centered life gives more satisfaction, happiness and peace in current life as well as next life too but pleasure centered life gives anxiety, envious and distressful life in this as well next life too.

We must ask, Am I living Principle centered life or pleasure centered life?

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