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Samayasara
Chapter - 7 if threatened by injury to one's possessions. All these are facts of worldly life and are collectively called empirical reality.
When, with the dawn of enlightenment, one realizes the ultimate truth that all the worldly possessions/assets are transitory in nature and the only eternal assets are one's own inalienable qualities, the horizon and outlook undergoes radical change. Contemplation of the ultimate truth that all material possessions (including the body) are perishable and are most susceptible to being maimed or split or stolen or lost in one way or another, reveals the transcendental reality. How can such a perishable object be considered as identical to Self which is eternal and possessed of the inalienable qualities of consciousness? Identification of material assets to one's self is equivalent to identifying consciousness with inanimate. Realization of this ultimate truth does not necessarily result in physical renunciation of the material assets. The actual realization is in the mental outlook when all desires for alien property disappear.
The change of outlook concerns not only the material possessions but also extends to the auspicious karma (punya) and it's fruition which is the transcendental cause of all material assets and their enjoyment. So long as there was a desire for sensuous pleasure, punya and punyaphala where regarded as the most valuable assets being the ultimate source of all worldly pleasures. But once the desire is subjugated and countermanded by enlightenment, punya and pāpa are put on par as the ultimate obstacles to final emancipation.
As the spiritual development advances, carnal desire for all sensuous pleasures diminishes and finally vanishes. An enlightened person does feel hungry and thirsty and he eats and drinks, but there is no psychic response in these physical acts. Slowly all the worldly pleasures lose their charm and the enlightened person forsakes desire for all worldly dispositions and he is content with their awareness.
A Sage is Free from all Desires उप्पण्णोदयभोगो वियोगबुद्धिए तस्स सो णिच्चं। कंखामणागदस्स य उदयस्स ण कुव्वदेणाणी॥२३॥
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