Part of leading a great life is to have a taste of earthly and also slightly skyly pleasures ..Earthly pleasures being that can be done physically like eat a good food ..drink a good wine etc ..skyly pleasures are a tad higher in taste post the physical physics like ego drive ..have a great name and fame ..power over others etc ..That is also needed to have a full satfisfaction of life .However need not stay there ..come beyond ..that can happen only if travel through this ..This is not my doctrin but in Upanishads that depicts Namakam and chamakam about lord Siva ..who is the only lord called as Lord of lords Mahadev ..In fact he is beyond all skyly pleasures and had a frugal like not by compulsions but by choice ..Saivam is a way of life ..Going through the most popular namakam and chamakam chants one can infer this very clearly ..one of the bucket list of common worshiper of god shiva is to have , surprisingly , old age ..why one seeks old age as a blessing ..very clear it is a natural way of shedding down all physical desires and skyly desires for reaching probably cosmotic needs . Urvaruka miva bandhanath is also a popular chant of Shiva which means the desires be delinked like the stem of melon fruit when it is ripe ..so natural .
Perhapes Dharma raju says about better way of living in this context ..he says to work towards better tomorrow and ignore the results ..imbibed the words of lord sri krishna one and only Jagadguru about work and results .. Ponder over ..may be wander and meander in this though processes ..
Srinivas kesiraju
