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Ratnakarandaka-śrāvakācāra
Characterization of attachment to possessions (parigraha) as infatuation is all-inclusive. Therefore, a person who has renounced all possessions, but under infatuation, certainly is ‘with possession'.
यद्येवं भवति तदा परिग्रहो न खलु कोऽपि बहिरङ्गः। भवति नितरां यतोऽसौ धत्ते मूर्छानिमित्तत्वम् ॥ ११३ ॥ The assertion that infatuation is attachment to possessions (parigraha) would mean that there can be no external parigraha. It is not so because infatuation is instrumental in all external possessions (parigraha) as well. एवमतिव्याप्तिः स्यात्परिग्रहस्येति चेद्भवेन्नैवं । यस्मादकषायाणां कर्मग्रहणे न मूर्छास्ति ॥ ११४ ॥ This may seem to be overlapping (possessing anything is infatuation). It is not so; when passionless (higher order) saints take in karmic molecules, there is no attachment, and, therefore, there is no infatuation.
Jain, Vijay K. (2012), "Shri Amritachandra Suri's Purusārthasiddhyupāya”, p. 73-75.
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