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JAINISM (8) He has no positive dislike for any object. Dislike is a source of misery, and there must be no misery in the ideal.
(9) Fear has disappeared. There is fear in us for the loss of our body, our reputation, our property because we identify ourselves with them, considering them the factors of our being, and we have not realized that the real self is different from our goods, etc., and that our real self cannot be injured by any force in the universe. Fear, therefore, shows lack of knowledge, and weakness.
(10) He has no feeling of disgust or sense of repulsion. The sense of disgust produces a kind of misery; also if all the aspects of a thing are known then there is no sense of disgust.
(11) Sorrow is absent; it is a kind of misery. (He may have pity and compassion).
(12) Lust or sexual passion has disappeared entirely.
(13) His attitude of belief and conviction is correct. All signs of anger, greed, killing, have gone.
(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 the master.
(16) He has perfect control over desires; over any desire to please or indulge the eye, the ear, taste, touch or smell.
(17) He has no attachments to things or persons. He makes no effort, nor has he any desire to keep or to get
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