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3 The Pali thus rendered is /hiti and ayatanaw respectively. The Cy. paraphrases the first by ' this is an equivalent for a setting-up (pati/Mana) of vinnawa.' Pati//Mnaw* is the affording of a standingplace, resting-place, locus standi, or foothold for. Thii'i again is the term for the central, static moment in any process, contrasting with two others in the same category, viz. inception and dying-out. ' Rest ' is not satisfactory, but no English term suggests itself which exactly meets the requirement. For ' sphere ' the paraphrase is simply : — ' nivasana//Mnaw,' dwelling-place,. . . 'These are included to exhaust [the contents] of the Cycle (sawsara), for the Cycle goes not on merely by way of vihnawa-resting places.'

4 No two human beings, says the Cy., are ever exactly alike ; even in twins that are undistinguishable in likeness of appearance and complexion, there will be some difference in look, speech, gait or carriage.

5 Cf. Dh. S., §§ 160 ff., 266 ff. ; transl., pp. lxxxvii-ix, 43 ff.,
72 ff.

6 Ranking sixth in the heavens of Rupabrahmaloka.

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' There are beings uniform in body and of uniform intelligence, for instance, the All- Lustrous Gods \ This is the fourth resting-place for Cognition.

1 There are beings who, by having passed wholly beyond all consciousness of form, by the dying out of the consciousness of sense-reaction, by having turned the attention away from any consciousness of the manifold, and become conscious only of " space as infinite," are dwellers in the realm of infinite space 2. This is the fifth resting-place for Cognition.

' There are beings who, by having passed wholly beyond the realm of infinite space, and become conscious only of " cognition as infinite," are dwellers in the realm of infinite cognition. This is the sixth o resting-place for Cognition.

' There are beings who, by having passed wholly beyond the realm of infinite cognition, and become conscious only that " there is nothing whatever," are dwellers in the realm of nothingness. This is the seventh resting-place for Cognition.

' The Sphere of beings without consciousness :!.

' Next to that, the Sphere of beings who neither have consciousness nor yet have it not 4.

34. ' Now there, Ananda — in that first restingplace for Cognition, of differing bodies and differing intelligences, — to wit, human beings and certain of the gods and certain of those in purgatory — think you that he who both knows what that state is, and how it comes to be, and how it passes away, — knows too the pleasures of it, and the miseries 5 of it, and the way of

1 Ranking ninth in the same.

2 The Cy. refers the inquirer to the Vis. Mag. for further comment.
Cf. next Suttanta, and Dh. S., §§ 265-8 ; trans., pp. 71-5.

3 Sanna, perhaps awareness would be a better rendering.

4 The Cy. here includes cognition with awareness, the extreme tenuity or refinement (sukhumatta??/) of both being in this sphere such that it is as a zero point between presence and absence of either. See passage last cited in previous note.

5 Or the peril of it (adinavo), i.e. the thought of its impermanence, changeableness, &c. Cy.

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escape from it, — think you that it were fitting for such an one to take delight in it ? * '

[70] ' Nay, lord.'

' And in those other six resting-places for Cognition, and in those two Spheres, — think you that he who both knows them for what they are, how they come to be, and how they pass away, knows too the pleasures of them, and the miseries of them, and the way of escape from them, — think you that it were fitting for such an one to take delight in them ? '

' Nay, lord.'

' But, Ananda, when once a brother has understood as they really are the coming to be and the passing away, the pleasures and the miseries of, and the way of escape from, these seven resting-places for Cognition, and these two Spheres, that brother, by being purged of grasping, becomes free. And then, Ananda, he is called Freed-by- Reason2 .'

35. 'Now these, Ananda, are the eight stages of
Deliverance :;. Which are they ?