Interest and Indifference

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If one is hungry after gain one should have interest. If one feels relief n losing one should show indifference

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Interest can be described in four ways

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First way

Interest in the self. If a person is not interest in anybody or anything he is certainly interested in himself.

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Second way

There is interest in another (briefly based on sacrifice)

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Third way

Interest is in science or art or in the attaining of a material object, wealth or power or possessions. This interest has nothing to do with a special person. It is for something which is gained but requires sacrifice.

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Fourth way

There is interest in spiritual things that brings one again to interest in oneself.

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Indifference can be described in three ways

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First way

Indifference to oneself, as when a person says, “I do not care what people say, I am not interested in myself. I have other things on my mind”

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Second way

Towards an individual/individuals one does not mind whether one lives or dies, one doesn’t mind what happens to another, one does not mind if they love or hate. Whether one profit or doesn’t, happy or unhappy — it is all the same

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Third way

Indifference of the 4th kind: “What does it matter whether I pray or not, whether it is good or bad, whether I am received in paradise or not”

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Indifference to oneself, as when a person says, “I do not care what people say; I am not interested in myself; I have other things on my mind.”

Indifference towards an individual/individuals one does not mind whether one lives or dies, one does not mind what happens to one. One does not mind if they love or hate another, whether one profits or doesn’t, happy or unhappy — it’s all the same.

Indifference of the 4th kind, “What does it matter whether I pray or not, whether it’s good or bad, whether I am perceived in paradise or not”.