Ninefold contentment

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[Base sūtra:] {{tuṣṭi / siddhi / aśakti|Contentment}} (tuṣṭi) in nine ways.

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[Verse:] Having taken {{prakṛti|primordial nature}} itself to be the supreme Self, one becomes content; should one rest in [such] indifference, that contentment is called "ambhas"; and [taking] the intellect to be the supreme Self, that contentment is remembered as "salila."

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[Verse:] When it occurs in regard to the I-maker, it is termed "āyācchā"; when that contentment occurs in regard to the subtle elements, it is declared "dṛṣṭi" [vṛṣṭi].

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[Verse:] These four contentments arise as "internal" (ādhyātmika); yet in them too there is no liberation, [which comes] only from the knowledge of the [true] principles, as has been stated.

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[Verse:] "There is pain in acquiring objects, and in safeguarding what is acquired; pain in letting go, pain in their loss—fie on wealth, that vessel of pain!"

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[Verse:] [Thinking] "contented through seeing [these] faults, the supreme brahman alone is a sharer in liberation"—this is the fifth contentment, "sutā," [yet it too fails] through the absence of the knowledge of the [true] principles.

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[Verse:] The sixth is "sutarā," [contentment] in regard to safeguarding; the seventh, "sunetrā," from seeing [the fault of] their loss; and the eighth, "kurmarīcikā," [whose fault is] the fault of attachment;

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[Verse:] and desisting from [pursuit of] wealth because of the fault of violence and the rest—the ninth contentment, called "samaskarī" [uttamāmbhasikā], is the highest of these, [O disciple].