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worked out; but in the Deva or Arhat it is fully worked out and therefore there is nothing unfamiliar to him. If 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, fame, 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 being; he has not realised that his real self is different from these things, his goods, his emotions, his physical body, his reputation, etc., and that his real self cannot be injured by any of these losses. Fear for the loss of these things implies that he thinks that those things are the factors of his being (whereas they are not, he can live independently of them) that they are his self, and that if they are destroyed, he is destroyed with them. An Arhat would not
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