Rasarnavasudhakara 2.351
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2.351
"All wealth belongs to him whose mind is content;
surely for one whose foot is enclosed in a shoe, the whole earth is covered with leather."
2.351.p1
(Sarasvatīkaṇṭhābharaṇa)
2.351.p2
And he commented: "Here, in a hero of the calm and tranquil type who is tranquil by nature, the durable emotional state of firmness arises from the substantial determinant consisting of the acquisition of wealth, a congenial wife, and other blessings. Being stimulated by excitant determinants such as reflection upon the reality of things, and united with emerging transitory emotional states such as recollection and resolve, and consequents such as deliberate speech, it matures and is celebrated as the tranquil aesthetic sentiment. Others, however, consider quietude to be its basis. But that will just be a particular form of firmness."
2.351.p3
Here, first, that firmness generated by obtaining a congenial wife is subordinate to love is known even to children and cowherds. If it is objected, 'Its status as a durable emotional state is conceived through reflection upon the reality of things and the like,' we say: no. For in the appreciator's mind perfumed by latent impressions of desirelessness, when desirelessness dawns even toward determinants and the like, firmness would suffer complete extirpation. As for firmness generated by the acquisition of wealth, it follows after energy in the form of determination to attain a transcendent state marked by absence of greed, and thus serves merely as an accessory to the heroic; therefore, firmness is not a durable emotional state here. In the very effort to refute the durable nature of firmness, the durable state of quietude regarding that sphere is destroyed—where it has vanished, one cannot tell.
2.351.p4
Resolve as a durable emotional state has been illustrated by him as follows:
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