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established in equality, currents of thoughts and counter-thoughts cease to occur. And in the person who is freed from thoughts and counterthoughts the craving for sensual objects is destroyed. The person who is free from attachment and has done what he should have done destroys his knolwdege-obscuring karma instantaneously. Similarly, he also destroys the intuition-covering karma and the obstructive karma too."
anannaparamam nāņi, ņo pamāe kayāi vi. āyagutte sayā vīre, jāyāmāyāe jāvae. The wise should never be non-vigilant with respect to the highest good. The self-guarded monk should always be enthusiastic in spiritual discipline and maintain his life on
limited diet. Bhāśyam Sutra 56 The words'a person of unique vision" (2.173) and "a person of supreme vision" (3.38) have been mentioned before. Here the expression “Uniquely supreme" is used. The 'Uniquely supreme" means what has no superior than itself. It stands for 'self-restraint' or 'equanimity'. A wise person should never be non-vigilant in respect of it. In the practice of self-restraint, the importance of energy is as great as that of knowledge. It has, therefore, been said that, the valiant should apply his energy to conquering the mind, speech and body and also alimentary intake that produces non-vigilance. In other words, he should protect himself against such intakes. Here 'self' means the body, the speech and the mind against which he should guard himself. The discrimination of alimentary intake is a great necessity for such protection. Livelihood means the livelihood characterized by self-restraint. For the maintenance of his restrained livelihood he should maintain his body with quantity of food that is necessary for sustenance. Protection is not possible by means of too fatty or too massive alimentary intake. The naintenance of body is impossible with alimentary consumption. Therefore, the diet should be controlled in order that there did not occur the excitement due to sensuous objects. The diet should be regulated in order maintain the body as instrumental to the practice of self-restraint for a long time. 3.57 virāgam rūvehim gacchejjā, mahayā khuddaehi vā.
One should practice detachment from all sorts of sensual objects - small or big.
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