These and many others fell by reason of their pleasures.
_Answer._ This objection cannot be sustained, for pleasures, being as necessary for the existence and well being of the body as food, are consequently equally required.

They are, moreover, the results of Dharma and Artha.
Pleasures are, therefore, to be followed with moderation and caution.

No one refrains from cooking food because there are beggars to ask for it, or from sowing seed because there are deer to destroy the corn when it is grown up.
Thus a man practising Dharma, Artha and Kama enjoys happiness both in this world and in the world to come.

The good perform those actions in which there is no fear as to what is to result from them in the next world, and in which there is no danger to their welfare.

Any action which conduces to the practice of Dharma, Artha and Kama together, or of any two, or even one of them, should be performed, but an action which conduces to the practice of one of them at the expense of the remaining two should not be performed.
FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 4: These were certainly materialists who seemed to think that a bird in the hand was worth two in the bush.] [Footnote 5: Among the Hindoos the four classes of men are the Brahmans or priestly class, the Kshutrya or warlike class, the Vaishya or agricultural and mercantile class, and the Shoodra or menial class.