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accumulate all possible paraphernalia of physical well-being that is on sale. Over time, while our senses debilitate the lust for more and newer objects remains unabated. Not being able to keep pace with the flood of products and services that are launched everyday in the market, disquiet sets in. This, in a nutshell, is the life of a typical worldly man.
Medicine has provided us with tranquilizers that can reduce stress and tension, but not with a drug that can rejuvenate and help us move towards positive thinking, inner peace, and purity of the Self. All these attributes have to come from within. The very essence of Divinity consists in freedom from worry, anxiety and boredom. The man who is happy has no time for gossip and teaparty chit-chats; he does not look outside to bring him recreation. Renunciation rather than acquisition is a source of inner peace.
What can a man do to get himself unmoved by the strong current of disquiet that the alien sense-perceived objects cause?
Acārya Kundakunda in Samayasāra pronounces the proper approach for non-indulgence in alien objects:
जह मज्जं पिवमाणो अरदिभावेण ण मज्जदे पुरिसो। दव्वुवभोगे अरदो णाणी वि ण बज्झदे तहेण ॥ (7-4-196) A person consuming alcoholic drink can still remain sober due to his strong sense of non-indulgence, similarly, the knowledgeable person, remaining detached from the enjoyment of alien substances, does not attract bondage.
सेवंतो वि ण सेवदि असेवमाणो वि सेवगो को वि। YRUIDIGT cho thy fa up a repuit f H afc 11 (7-5-197) The right believer (due to the absence of attachment), while getting involved in sensualities, really does not indulge in them,
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