Sakka, I teach two kinds of pleasant feeling (vedanā), viz, the pleasant feeling that is to be harboured and the pleasant feeling that is to be avoided. If you know that a pleasant feeling helps to develop wholesome states of consciousness and hamper unwholesome states of consciousness, you should not harbour such feeling. If you know that a pleasant feeling helps to develop unwholesome states of consciousness and hamper wholesome states of consciousness, you should harbour such feeling. The pleasant feeling is of two kinds, viz, one which is bound up with thinking and reflection and the other which has nothing to do with these mental activities (vitakka-vicāra). Of these two the pleasant feeling that has nothing to do with vitakka-vicāra is much superior.