# The Fundamental Error

By [Unblur Your Life](https://paragraph.com/@unblur-your-life) · 2023-04-28

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The Inadequate Life
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“A human being sees himself as a deficient person. His constant, compulsive pursuits make his sense of inadequacy evident.” So begins the book titled “Introduction To Vedanta - Understanding the fundamental problem” by Swami Dayananda. Our constant pursuit of wealth and pleasure almost inevitably ends up in a sense of emptiness - the rock keeps rolling back down like the curse of Sisyphus.

![The Sisyphus In Us](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/0c7dd60d0f4881233fa66f0dd60599462b4d962545be6c7f2d073e380de983df.png)

The Sisyphus In Us

The Fundamental Error & The Solution
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*   There is a perpetual sense of inadequacy in all of us that vanishes only very momentarily under some circumstances.
    
*   No external pursuit of wealth & pleasure is going to make one feel adequate completely and permanently. One’s day to day experience is the evidence for this.
    
*   This sense of inadequacy to start with is because of the ignorance that we are and have always been fully adequate. (this is a big leap) Ignorance blurs our view and stops us from seeing this, thus leading to the fundamental error.
    
*   One needs the right means of knowledge to remove this ignorance.
    
*   Vedanta is that knowledge.
    

More in posts to come.

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*Originally published on [Unblur Your Life](https://paragraph.com/@unblur-your-life/the-fundamental-error)*