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4 If the anàgam undertakes insight-meditation further, he
may develop the fourth magga-vãthi. This vãthi again runs
as before—just change ‘anàgàmà’ into ‘arahatta’. The
person now becomes an arahant (the perfect one).
Phala-samàpatti Vãthis
There are four noble individuals (ariya-puggala): the streamwinner
(sotàpanna), the once-returner (sakadàgamà), the nonreturner
(anàgàmà) and the perfect one (arahat).
Each noble individual may enter the meditative absorption
corresponding to the fruition of the path he has attained. By
doing so, he is enjoying the peace of Nibbàna, and during this
absorption phala-samàpatti vãthis occur as follows.
(Manda-pa¤¤à)
Na–Da– “Ma–Pa–U–Nu–Vo–Pha–Pha– many times” Bha–
(Tikkha-pa¤¤à)
Na–Da– “Ma–U–Nu–Vo–Pha–Pha– many times” Bha–
In developing the phala-samàpatti vãthis, the noble individuals
have to meditate on the three characteristics of existence
until the phala-samàpatti vãthi arises.
1 When one of the three characteristics of existence enters
the avenue of the mind-door of a sotàpanna, the lifecontinuum
vibrates twice as bhavaïga-calàna and
bhavaïgupaccheda and becomes arrested. The manodvàràvajjana
considers the object and decides whether
it is good or bad. Then one of the four ¤àõa-sampayuttaü
mahà-kusala cittas, observing the tãlakkhaõa object,
functions three times as parikamma (omit in tikkha-pa¤¤à
person), upacàra and anuloma, and, observing Nibbàna,
functions once as vodàna. After that sotàpatti-phala citta,