Characteristics

• Pleasure seeking

• Pain avoiding

• No survival issues

• Earn for pleasure

## Behaviour

• Fear of pain and death

• Attached to objects

• Use body as an object for pleasure

• Will approach others only if they expect pleasure

## Speech Ego is very strong here and their conversations will mostly revolve around-

• Where they travelled

• What they ate

• Where they shopped

• Pleasures they had

• Worry about pain and trouble and complain when pleasures are withdrawn

• Gossip is juicy

• From any topic, they arrive back to expression of desires

## Thought

• Imagination of pleasure and happiness

• Plan a bit to get the objects they desire

• Mostly inactive mind

• Attention deficit, easily distracted

They can be easily exploited because they are ready to do anything for pleasure and meeting their desires.

Relations

• Faithful as long as relation provides pleasure

• They are not interested in the person but as a means to meeting their desires

• Many affairs, in ancient times-many wives

• Give and take- they are also pleasure givers

• Very friendly and loving towards the people of their kind

• Very interesting company-they have a lot to tell, objects to show off

• Are beautiful and seek beautiful people

## Entertainment

• Sex

• Eating heavy food-very sweet, oily, spicy

• New and expensive things

• Spend all money on vacations

• Addicted to alcohol or drugs

• Pornography

• Parties where there is food and mates

• Cheap entertainment

## Mental Afflictions

• Cunning

• Lie, cheat, dishonest

• Corrupt

• Lustful

• Use force and violence

• Can kill to hide their crimes

## Signs

• Everyone has these tendencies

• Hedonistic people have only these tendencies

• Major part of life is lived at this level

## Suggested Paths Devotion as a source of pleasure Religious communities are tailored for such people where they are taught- do not lie, do not cheat Path of action, service- slowly serving others can take over Occult Paths-if desires are too many- it produces instant gratification of desires and then mind gets bored easily. Vacuum is created and it sucks them in the higher layers. Light Yogic Practices

Most of the times it is a tragedy in their life that generates a spark in their consciousness to start the spiritual journey, for example death of a close family member.