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Since through the senses the spiritually awakened person enjoys ( in a detached way) the pleasure derived from the conscious and unconscious things, all that pleasure becomes the cause of elimination of (previous) Karmas (psycho-physical impurities). Even making use of things (for sensuous pleasures), a person (may be such that) (because of detachment), he does not remain dependent on them ( for attaining supreme peace). On the contrary, even not making use of things (for sensuous pleasures), a person may be such that) (because of attachment), he becomes dependent on them (with the result that supreme peace always remains unattainable for him). (True it is to say that) even by reason of the effort made for doing good work for the sake of somebody, one does not become related with it (in a strong way), (because of not having any attachment to it). ( It can, therefore, be said that because of attachment strong relation with things occur, karmic bondage results and mental perturbation comes into being). Merely by knowing about the sensuous objects and worldly gains, the person neither resorts to identification with them nor experiences alienation from them. (But true it is to say that) the person who either likes or dislikes them experiences psycical transformation (of identification with them or alienation from them) because of remaining infatuated with them.
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(B) Resultant Components of Spiritual Awakening:
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There are eight (resultant) components of spiritual awakening, namely, non-doubtfulness, non-hankeringness, non-disgustedness, non-injudiciousness, enhancement of virtues in one's own self, re-establishment of one's own self and that of others on the virtuous path, affection towards the virtuous, and promulgation of values - (these are the eight resultant components of spiritual awakening).
Samapasuttam-Vol. I
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