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**Prabha Drishti:** The virtuous eye sees both happiness and sorrow as transient, while the happiness of meditation is self-controlled.
(575) It performs **pratikraman** (retraction) as a return to the field, and rejects going back to the other field. It remains balanced in its form and performs **samayik** (self-restraint) as its true nature. It performs true self-worship by touching its own form. It attains the supreme blessedness of self-praise, saying, "I bow to myself, I bow to myself!" It attains the path of the **Nigantha** (Jain ascetic), who has forgotten the body and is absorbed in its form, meaning it attains a state beyond the body while still having a body, and constantly practices **kayotsarga** (non-attachment to the body). Then this soul experiences the supreme happiness that is self-controlled. And this **yogi** (practitioner) who has attained this state of **karyotsarga** (action-restraint) abandons all objects of attachment, which are the source of sorrow, and takes refuge in the pure self-meditation, which is the source of happiness. Therefore, it constantly immerses itself in the waves of supreme bliss.
**SR**
Even the happiness that is desired for the sake of virtue is transient. Therefore, according to the nature of its characteristics, it is only sorrow. (173)
Meaning: Even the happiness that is desired for the sake of virtue is transient, and therefore, according to the nature of its characteristics, it is only sorrow. (And the happiness that arises from meditation is the only true happiness.)
**Commentary:** According to the above-mentioned principle, the happiness that is desired for the sake of virtue is also transient, because virtue is external. Therefore, it is also only sorrow, according to the nature of its characteristics. Therefore, the happiness that arises from meditation is the only true happiness, because it is self-controlled and arises only from the detachment from karma.
The above-mentioned general principle states that whatever is transient is sorrow, and whatever is self-controlled is happiness. According to this principle, the happiness that is desired for the sake of virtue is transient, because virtue is external. Therefore, it is only sorrow, according to the nature of its characteristics. Therefore, the happiness that arises from meditation is the only true happiness, because it is self-controlled and arises only from the detachment from karma.
**Vritti:** Even the happiness that is desired for the sake of virtue is transient, because virtue is external. Therefore, it is only sorrow, according to the nature of its characteristics. Therefore, the happiness that arises from meditation is the only true happiness, because it is self-controlled and arises only from the detachment from karma.
**- Shri Adhyatma Saar**