(2)
Indifference to the enjoyment of the fruits of one's actions both here
and hereafter. (3) Possession of Sama and the other five qualities.
(4) An intense desire of becoming liberated (from conditional
existence).
(1.) Q. What is the right discrimination of permanent and impermanent
things?
A. Certainty as to the Material Universe being false and illusive, and
Brahman being the only reality.
(2.) Indifference to the enjoyment of the fruits of one's actions in
this world is to have the same amount of disinclination for the
enjoyment of worldly objects of desire (such as garland of flowers,
sandal-wood paste, women and the like) beyond those absolutely necessary
for the preservation of life, as one has for vomited food, &c. The same
amount of disinclination to enjoyment in the society of Rambha, Urvasi,
and other celestial nymphs in the higher spheres of life beginning with
Svarga loka and ending with Brahma loka.*
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* These include the whole range of Rupa loka (the world of forms)
in Buddhistic esoteric philosophy.
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