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    Desire arises in virtue of a connection whose emergent cause requires a specifier

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    Every living body is 'enselved' (possesses a self)Having-a-self is the specifier of the connection that gives rise to desireThis specifier is proved with respect to the living body

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    Given that desire has been proved to have an inherent cause (by the inference previously stated, “Desire has origins in an inherent cause, since it is an effect,” we formulate a second inference), being-a-desire occurs in that (namely, desire) which has as emergent cause a connection, since being-a-desire is a universal directly pervaded by the qualityhood-that-occurs-in-specific-qualities-grasped-by-an-eternal-organ (i.e., manas or the organ of hearing), like being-a-sound (soundhood, the unive

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