What is Vishya? And why is it called so? This question and its real answer can fundamentally shift your spiritual path.

As a doctor, I would say objects of pleasure kill you via various diseases like diabetes, heart disease, stroke, obesity, some cancers, etc, in the long run, with unhealthy foods.
Objects of pleasure do kill you in that sense.
But of course, spiritual discussion goes deeper than that, much deeper than that.
So, as we discussed, objects of pleasure are Vishyas, poison.
But there is a difference between Vish and Vishya.
What is that?
Vish is a definite poison; it comes with poison written on it, that if you drink it, you WILL die.
Vish is an honest poison.
But Vishyas are dishonest.
They don’t come to you as poison; they come as a pleasure, the pleasure for your senses – eyes, ears, taste, touch, and smell.
They promise you pleasure, attract your attention, but in the long run, they will kill you (objects of pleasure – food, drinks, smoking, etc leading to various diseases).
This was my interpretation (a doctor’s, obviously), good enough for the patients to stay away from Vishyas.
But Vishyas has a deeper meaning that I want to discuss here.…
So, Vishyas, objects of pleasure, kill you, but the question is, who are you?
Spiritually speaking, you are not the body, which is gonna die anyway.
Whether it dies sooner or later, how does it matter?
And that’s why people argue that if I’m gonna die, I might as well die enjoying life.
So, even at the cost of the diseases, people keep relishing in objects of pleasure, anyway.
But Vishya is a definite term with a definite meaning, in the scriptures.
The truth is, Vishyas DO kill you; not in the long term, but every single time you consume them.
What do they kill?
That’s the million-dollar question that Rajiv had partially alluded to already.
What do they kill?
And what is the deeper impact of Vishyas on a spiritual sadhak on their spiritual path?
Clue –
Whatever happens in consciousness happens in NOW, not in the future, not in the long term.
So, killing by Vishyas also happens in NOW.
What do they kill?
We lose our connection with the soul.
And the soul is awareness.
And awareness is life.
That’s how Vishyas kill us.
Our awareness melts into the objects of pleasure. (Just like I was lost in Reese’s peanut butter cups 😊, at one time).
One who drinks forgets himself in that moment and becomes one with the drink.
And it is not just food, drinks, or smoking, etc.
Anything you attach your awareness to and become one with is the object of your pleasure.
You listen to someone’s music and forget yourself. M
The musician needs you and you need him.
You get mesmerized by a football game, or a movie, or a dharmguru, and you lose your true self (become unaware of it).
The whole sansar is neck-deep in each other, and there is no coming out.
A heroine needs the public’s attention and has already killed her soul because her awareness is focused on the public, utilizing her body and looks.
And the public who gets mesmerized by that, loses contact with their own awareness and starts dreaming about her.
And the same thing happens to a political leader who wants votes and needs the public for that: thet.
But the public impressed by him and following him has also lost their own self-awareness in making the right decisions.
Same thing with rich and poor.
Dharm gurus and their followers.
The whole sansar is in a state of craziness, with everyone trying to impress each other and counting how many people admire their dress, looks, muscles, intelligence, etc.
They feed each other.
This is how people are born in Sansar and die in, without any salvation.
Everyone needs spectators to look big, bigger, biggest.
They are all lost.
What are they losing? The pure awareness that is aware of itself.
People don’t love each other, but they go to watch movies about crazy love on the screen.
People don’t laugh in their lives, so they need stand-up comedians to make them laugh.
They don’t dance, but they need a dancer to mesmerize them.
They don’t want to play sports, but lose hours and hours watching games.
Players also need them; without the public watching, all games will stop.
A dancer is dancing for the people; he needs them, and vice versa.
People don’t want to change their lives but keep worshipping the ones who changed theirs, like Gandhi, Mahavir, Buddha, Jesus, etc.
Worshipping doesn’t do anything.
They keep quoting them, but themselves remain unchanged because their focus is on others, never on themselves.
Anytime you live on others, you have killed your soul.
Yes, we know that the soul is immortal and cannot be killed, BUT, where is it? No one knows.
It cannot be killed, but it can be forgotten, and that’s what the whole world is doing.
They have given more importance to the world than to their own soul.
Vishaya kills (makes it non-existent) the soul.
The whole Sansar is a disease, and the cure is Dhyan (being aware of awareness).
All running around that we do towards each other,

All the running around that we do towards each other is meaningless and a total waste of life.

There is only one gati (motion), and that is going within; the rest are just wasting time in Sansar, only to die.

– Buddha