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Bhāsyam Sūtra 57 Detachment is the means to self-guarding which is to stop even of the right activity of the body, speech and mind. It has, therefore, been enjoined that one should be detached from the sensual objects. The sensual objects consist of colour, taste, etc. Among them, the colour is most alluring and therefore the Sanskrit word 'rūpa' meaning colour has been used in the Sūtra to denote all sensual objects. Sensual objects may be big or small. The Nāgārjunīya school has explained it as follows: ''Each of the two divisions of the five sensual objects is threefold. Properly knowing them in the true sense, one does not cling to any of the two catagories." That is, The sound and the like are the five objects of the senses. They fall into two categories viz., the covetable and the uncovetable. The objects of each of these categories are threefold viz., mean, medium and superior. One should be dispassionate to them Dispassion' means disinterest or indifference. By means of the practice of perceiving the demerits of the sensual objects, the cravingless mind becomes disgusted with worldly life. The spiritual mastery arising out of such disgust is detachment. This is explained in the following dialogue in the Uttarādhyayana Sūtra (29.3)8 'What does the soul produce by means of disgust for worldly life, O Lord?'' 'By practising it one spontaneously develops disgust for all sensual enjoyments- celestial, human or animal. As a result, he becomes indifferent to all sensual objects." 3.58 āgatim gatim pariņņāya,
dohim vi amtehim adissamāne. se na chijjai na bhijjai ņa dajjhai, na hammai kamcanam savvaloe. Comprehending both birth and death, he keeps away from both the ends, namely, attachment and hatred. Such soul is neither cut, nor split, nor burnt, not struck by anyone in the
whole world. Bhāśyam Sūtra 58 The chief support to detachment consists in the comprehension of the transmigration (consisting of birth and death) of the soul. The person
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