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Soul Science: Samayasara by Jain Acarya Kundakunda
सो णिक्कंखो चेदा सम्मादिट्ठी मुणेदव्वो ।। 230।।
Jo du na karedi kankham kammaphalesu taha savvadhammesu. So nikkankho ceda sammādiṭṭhī munedavvo. ||230||
यस्तु न करोति कांक्षां कर्मफलेषु तथा सर्वधर्मेषु ।
स निष्कांक्षश्चेतयिता सम्यग्दृष्टिर्ज्ञातव्यः ।। 230 ।।
A living being who does not have any desire for any Karmika fruition as well as for any attribute [of other entities] is to be known as an enlightened being without desires. [230]
Annotation
This stanza describes another attribute of an enlightened being (SamyagDrști). In Samskṛta it is known as NiḥKāmkṣita attribute. The literal meaning of this word is 'absence of desire'.
An enlightened being realizes that he is a soul, and the soul is whole and complete by itself. He knows that there is no any need for anything else to make his soul more complete. Therefore, as a soul he does not desire for any specific Karmika fruition for himself or for any change in anything or any living being. This characteristic of a SamyagDrști is known as an attribute of absence of desires.
Question: How can be possible for a worldly person to not have any desire?
Answer: Similar question can be raised in context with many stanzas of this scripture. We already have raised and answered similar question earlier in the annotations of stanza 228. As mentioned there, such descriptions are to be considered in context with the soul. It is to be remembered that an enlightened being also becomes hungry as a person and may desire food as a person. Even while an enlightened being as a person desires or eats food, he realizes that in reality he is a soul and his soul neither becomes hungry nor desires nor eats food. An un-enlightened being (MithyaDrṣti)
