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**Stable Vision:** Desire does not cease through indulgence.
(507) Indulgence itself creates karma.
Removing the darkness, the burden is shifted, 161. Meaning: - Indulgence is like shifting the burden from one shoulder to another, due to the creation of karma.
The intellect will say that desire will cease through indulgence, that boredom and detachment will arise from indulgence. This is also wrong. Because ceasing desire through indulgence is like shifting the burden from one shoulder to another, because the karma continues. Just as a burden-bearer gets tired of lifting the burden on one shoulder, and so shifts it to the other shoulder, but does not put it down; similarly, a seeker of pleasure gets tired of one object, and so ceases his desire for it and takes hold of another object, but does not give up the fundamental desire for objects. Therefore, desire cannot cease through indulgence. Because the karma of indulgence has not been shed - the desire has not been abandoned, therefore, there is only a shift from one object to another. Thus, the cessation of desire that comes from indulgence is only a form of non-cessation of desire, because the attachment to desire continues! *
Knowing this, a person with right vision stays away from the desire for pleasure; he abandons the desire for objects, he abandons the desire for objects, and perhaps due to the force of past karma, he enjoys the fruits of his good karma, but he does so without attachment, without the feeling of "I" and "mine", like a lotus flower in water, remaining unstained. Therefore, he does not get bound by it, and he is freed from the fruits of his karma. This is the first sign of the four good qualities of a person with right vision: (4) good smell, (5) little urine and feces, (6) a mind filled with friendliness, (7) a mind that is not affected by poison, (8) a powerful mind, (9) and a mind filled with joy. (10) Indifference to worldly affairs - not being disturbed by good and bad, gain and loss, etc. (11) And popularity - this is the second sign. (12) The removal of faults, (13) and complete satisfaction, (14) the right way of life, (15) and great equanimity, (16) the destruction of hatred, etc., (17) and a mind filled with truth - these are the signs of the developed force. Here too, this natural group of qualities should be connected from here (from this vision). x "सिद्धथा विषयसौख्यस्य वैराग्यं वर्णयति ये । मतं न युज्यते तेषां यावदर्थप्रसिद्धितः।
अप्रासत्वभ्रमादुच्चैरवाप्तेष्वप्यनंतशः। कामभोगेषु मूढानां समीहा नोपशाम्यति ॥ विषयैः क्षीयते कामो नेधनैरिव पावकः । प्रत्युत प्रोल्लसच्छक्तिर्भूय एवोपवर्धते ॥"
Adhyatma Sara,