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knowledge, and in the Arhat or Deva, or Deity there must be no lack of knowledge. II. You do not find misery. He may have compassion.
sorrow. Sorrow is a
12. Sexual passion or lust has disappeared entirely; because in that state a person will do all kinds of wrong things to gratify the passion.
13. His attitude of belief and convictions is correct ; he is not in any state of intoxication or delusion. All signs of greed, anger, killing etc. must have gone. He has dismissed mithyātva.
14. Ignorance has gone, and therefore he is Omniscient.
15. He never goes into the state of sleep. If there is any hitch in the continuity of his omniscience then he is not an Arhat.
16. He has a perfect control over his desires; over any desire to please the eye, or the taste, or the ear, or the sense of touch.
sons.
17. He has no attachments to things or perHe would never say "You cannot take it, it is mine". (This characteristic refers more to persons, while the 7th refers more to things.)
18. He has no hatreds of persons or things. He does not think "I do not want anything to do with that person".
The person who has obtained the samyaktva has the conviction that such a person and such a person alone is my God, in the sense of an ideal
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