# The Fundamental Error

**Published by:** [Unblur Your Life](https://paragraph.com/@unblur-your-life/)
**Published on:** 2023-04-28
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The Inadequate Life“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 UsThe Fundamental Error & The SolutionThere 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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