Question and answer 6

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Question and answer 6

In plain words

Disciple: Then does the jñānī, who knows the Self, have desire for objects and the shining of happiness, or not?

Guru: He too may have the latent tendencies towards objects and the shining of happiness, as the ajñānī does; but the jñānī does not take that happiness to be anything other than the happiness of the Self.

Word for word

Disciple: Then, for the jñānī who has known the Self, are there desire for objects and the shining of happiness, or not?

Guru: Though, like the ajñānī, there be the latent tendency for objects and the shining of happiness, the jñānī does not know that happiness as other than the happiness of the Self.