Pleasure: 4 definitions
Introduction:
Pleasure means something in Buddhism, Pali, Hinduism, Sanskrit, Christianity. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. On this page you will also find search and cross-referencing tools.
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In Christianity
General definition (in Christianity)
Source: archive.org: Nave's Topical BiblePleasure definition and references: –Worldly Job 20:12-16; 21:12,13; Proverbs 9:17; 15:21; 21:17; Ecclesiastes 1:17; 2:1-13; Isaiah 5:11,12; 22:12,13; 47:8,9; Amos 6:1; Luke 8:14; Romans 1:32; 2 Thessalonians 2:12; Timothy 5:6; 2imothy 3:4; Titus 3:3; Hebrews 11:25,26; 2 Peter 2:13
–See Happiness
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–See Worldliness
See also (Relevant definitions)
Starts with (+3): Pleasure and pain, Pleasure and pain, Pleasure and pain, Pleasure and pain, Pleasure and pain, Pleasure and pain, Pleasure nor pain, Pleasure nor pain, Pleasure of learning, Pleasure potency, Pleasure, pain, Pleasure-grove, Pleasure-Pain, Pleasure-pastime, Pleasures fleeting vain, Pleasures of life, Pleasures of life, Pleasures of many varieties, Pleasures of the body, Pleasures of the body.
Full-text (+4484): Sukha, Saukhya, Kama, Bhoga, Rati, Hlada, Tosha, Mudita, Upabhoga, Nandana, Vishayasukha, Vihara, Arama, Ananda, Amoda, Viharana, Pramoda, Lilodyana, Vicaya, Samtosha.
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Search found 616 books and stories containing Pleasure, Pleasures; (plurals include: Pleasures, Pleasureses). You can also click to the full overview containing English textual excerpts. Below are direct links for the most relevant articles:
Summa Theologica (English translation) (by St. Thomas Aquinas)
Question. 34 - Of the goodness and malice of pleasures (four articles) < [Treatise on the passions]
Question. 31 - Of delight considered in itself (eight articles) < [Treatise on the passions]
Question. 33 - Of the effects of pleasure (four articles) < [Treatise on the passions]
Ante-nicene Fathers (by Alexander Roberts)
Chap. LXII.—Of restraining the pleasures of the senses < [Lactantius]
Chap. XXI.—Of the pleasures of the ears, and of sacred literature < [Lactantius]
Chapter XXVIII < [Part I]
Uttaradhyayana Sutra (by Hermann Jacobi)
Dhammapada (Illustrated) (by Ven. Weagoda Sarada Maha Thero)
Verse 345-346 - The Prison-House < [Chapter 24 - Taṇhā Vagga (Craving)]
Verse 48 - The Story of Patipūjikā Kumāri < [Chapter 4 - Puppha Vagga (Flowers)]
Verse 99 - The Story of a Woman < [Chapter 7 - Arahanta Vagga (The Saints)]
Trishashti Shalaka Purusha Caritra (by Helen M. Johnson)
Part 7: Exposition of the Cārvāka system (Materialist) < [Chapter I]
Part 8: The story of Nandiṣeṇa < [Chapter VI - Adoption of right-belief by Śreṇika]
Part 7: Refusal to marry < [Chapter II - Vāsupūjyacaritra]
Yoga-sutras (with Bhoja’s Rajamartanda) (by Rajendralala Mitra)
Sūtra 2.15 < [Second Chapter (Sadhana Pada)]
Sūtra 1.15 < [First Chapter (Samadhi Pada)]
Sūtra 2.42 < [Second Chapter (Sadhana Pada)]