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( 43 ) Attachment of Temporalities. 111. Affectionate regard for external objects is due to illusion and is attachment-clinging to externals.
112. Even if one has renounced all tangible property, the feeling of attachment itself is a clinging to externals.
113. All clinging to externals arises from attachments.
114. There is no attachment in the drawing in of Kar. mic molecules by saints, and it is not therefore a clinging to externals.
115. Possession is external and internal.
116. Internal possessions are 14:- (1) Wrong belief; Desire for sexual enjoyment with (2) man ; (3) woman, (4) both ; (5) laughter; (6) indulgence; (7) ennui ; (8) sorrow; (9) fear; (10) disgust; (11) anger ; (12) pride; (13) deceit; (14) greed.
117. External possession is of living or non-living objects.
118. A bjuring all possession is Ahinsa ; and all appropriation is Himsa.
119. Internal, as well as, external appropriation is Himsa.
120-123. There is a difference in the intensity of feeling. A deer has a liking for grass ; and a cat kills a host of mice. One is fond of milk, and the other of sugar. The difference is obvious.
124-126. Acquire belief in the principal categories, get rid of wrong belief, and of passions of the first degree ; then suppress those of the second degree. Then adopt the vows, and subdue all internal attachment, through humility, contentment, and meditation.
127. External possession should ever be avoided altogether. Its existence shows non-control.
128. If unable to do so, one should begin by setting limits to them.
Night Eating. 129. Himsa is inevitable in eating at night. Therefore renounce it.
130. Absence of such a vow shows influence of passion
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