| 9. Unattachment,
absence of affection for son, wife, home and the like, and constant equanimity
on the attainment of the desirable and the undesirable ; Unattachment: absence
of liking for things which may form objects of attachment. Affection is
an intense form of attachment and consists in complete identification with
another, as in the case of a man who feels happy or miser able when another
is happy or miserable and who feels himself alive or dead when another is
alive or dead. They like: others who are very dear, other dependents. Unattachment
and absence of affection are termed knowledge because they lead to knowledge.
Constant equanimity consists in not being delighted on attaining the desirable,
and in not chafing on attaining the undesirable. This equanimity also is
(conducive to) knowledge. |
