Bhoga-tyaga

Expressions researched:
"Neither tyaga, neither bhoga" |"bhoga and tyaga" |"bhoga tyaga" |"bhoga, enjoyment. And another is tyaga" |"bhoga, tyaga" |"bhoga-tyaga" |"tyaga and bhoga" |"tyaga, renunciation. And there is no question of bhoga"

Nectar of Devotion

Nectar of Devotion Preface:

The relish or taste of the mundane rasa does not long endure, and therefore mundane workers are always apt to change their position of enjoyment. A businessman is not satisfied by working the whole week; therefore, wanting a change for the weekend, he goes to a place where he tries to forget his business activities. Then, after the weekend is spent in forgetfulness, he again changes his position and resumes his actual business activities. Material engagement means accepting a particular status for some time and then changing it. This position of changing back and forth is technically known as bhoga-tyāga, which means a position of alternating sense enjoyment and renunciation. A living entity cannot steadily remain either in sense enjoyment or in renunciation. Change is going on perpetually, and we cannot be happy in either state, because of our eternal constitutional position. Sense gratification does not endure for long, and it is therefore called capala-sukha, or flickering happiness.