Rasarnavasudhakara 2.351.p3

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.