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STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
there is still some kind of weakness ; therefore he cannot be an ideal of perfection. There are 5 antaraya karmas, and so that makes the first 5 characteristics.
6. Laughing and joking must have disappeared ; because wben some unfamiliar object will produce laughing, it shows a lack of knowledge, and that shows that the jnanavaraniya karmas are not fully worked out; but in the Deva or Arhat it is fully worked out and therefore there is nothing unfamiliar to him. 1f laughing is produced by some new peculiar relationship of ideas, it would show a lack of knowledge.
7. He has no liking for this, that, and the other thing; that is, for material objects; he might say "You can keep them". It makes the person an unhappy person when he likes a thing and has to go without it.
8. He has no positive dislike for anything, because dislike is also the cause of misery.
9. He is not afraid of anything. Fear has disappeared from him. Weakness and lack of knowledge cause fear. There is fear for the loss of one's body, there is fear for the loss of one's reputation, property, face, popularity etc. only when these are identified with the self; and such fear shows that the person considers these things, property, reputation, embodied life, etc., to be the factors of his
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