Before you obtain any material object guided by materialistic desires, there are pains and tensions in planning and executing that plan. After you obtain the object, there are pains and tensions in preserving and protecting the object. If you loose the object, there are pains and only pains.

It is said that the greatest of all is God, but desires stand on top of God. For given chance to them, they will never allow you to get anywhere near God.

There is always more to story of desires. Mind will create desires till you are satisfied forever. Well, if the desire that is created is satisfied, you would want to have more of it, for mind develops attachment to those object which fetch you joy. You’ll take all sorts of pain to seek that object, to preserve that object, to protect that object. The more you receive, the more you desire and the more you become restless, because you have to make more efforts to collect more of it. You get more worried. “What if someone steals it from me?” All sorts of tensions and fears are developed. Sometimes you lose sleep at nights. Your search for potential rival is on. The suspect may be just innocent and he may not be interested in your possession at all. Still you believe you must prevent him getting any further, for it would be a risk to not to take preventive measure! If, in course of time, you fail to fulfill your desire, you become upset, you get exasperated, you are nervous.

You wanted to be happy. You ended up in worries, tensions, fears and just little bit of illusive happiness.

On the whole, you are a big loser, for unwanted feelings outscore acceptable ones. The punishment, in the form of sufferings of hell and in the form of afflictions in subsequent lives, is yet another gain! Where do you stand? You must come out of this vicious circle. The more is the delay, the more are the efforts will be needed to get out of it. It is extremely transparent that there is no escape till one gets out of the grip of materialistic pleasures which are devil in disguise.