Worldly delights are like Apsaras, the enchanting nymphs. Both nymphs and material delights provide eternal joy to the devas, but slip out of human reach like water through a clenched fist. Both are available to anyone with enough strength to claim them. Neither has a heart. Neither knows what it means to be faithful. In the arms of man, they stay only until human inadequacy or mortality ensures their flight.

Pattanaik