According to Osho, worldly pleasures allure precisely because they are fleeting: impermanence creates urgency, scarcity, and a heightened sense of value—"now it's here, now it's gone." Yet the same transience ensures that joy flips into loss and pain. Seeing this pleasure-suffering chain, religion urges turning from the perishable toward the eternal, where bliss does not decay.
We crave things that won’t last, but when they pass they hurt us—so seek what doesn’t end.