Zend Avesta Part 03

Author(s): L H Mills
Publisher: Oxford

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IV, 1, 24.
THINKING POWERS.
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23. 'From these the fourth class is to be distinguished. Those, o king, who are Anâgâmins, who have completely got rid of the five lower fetters, --their thinking powers, so far as the ten stages are concerned, are brought quickly into play, and act with ease. [104] But as regards the higher regions they are brought into play with difficulty, and act slowly. And why is this so? Because of their minds having been made clear as regards those ten stages, and because of the failings (to be vanquished in the higher stages) still existing within them. It is like the movement of a giant bambù which has a smooth trunk as far as the tenth knot, but above that has its branches intricately entangled. This is the fourth class of minds.'
24. 'From these the fifth class is to be distinguished. Those, o king, who are Arahats, in whom the four Great Evils & have ceased, whose stains have been washed away, whose predispositions to evil * have been put aside, who have lived the life, and accomplished the task, and laid aside every burden, and reached up to that which is good, for whom the Fetter of the craving after any kind of future life has been broken to pieces, who have reached the higher insight ©, who are purified as regards all those conditions of heart in which a
I Who will not return even once to this world, but attain Arahatship in heaven.
. This is noteworthy, for their mind is not yet quite clear as regards the higher five stages. But it is on all fours with the last section.
• Lust, becoming, delusion, and ignorance. • Kilesa. • Parikkina-bhava-samyogana. • Patta-palisambhida.
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