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Karunà embraces sorrow-stricken beings with the
ardent wish to free them from all sufferings.
It stands for the karunà-cetasika.
3 Mudita – sympathetic joy, appreciative joy.
It is the congratulatory attitude of oneself. Its chief
characteristic is to be happy and full of joy in others’
prosperity and success. Its direct enemy is jealousy, and
its indirect enemy is exhilaration (pahàsa). it eliminates
dislike (arati).
Mudita embraces all prosperous beings with the
ardent wish that their prosperity will last for a long time.
It stands for the mudita-cetasika.
4 Upekkhà – equanimity
It literally means ‘to view impartially’, that is, with
neither attachment nor aversion. Impartial attitude is
its chief characteristic.
It is not hedonic indifference nor the neutral feeling
(upekkhà-vedanà). It stands for tatramajjhattatà-cetasika
and means perfect equanimity or a well-balanced mind.
It stays in between karunà and mudita. It keeps the mind
balanced and unwavering amidst vicissitudes of life
such as praise and blame, pain and happiness, gain and
loss, repute or disrepute.
Its direct enemy is passion (ràga) and its indirect
enemy is callousness. It eliminates clinging and aversion.
Living in the Sublime Abode
Any one who is practising one of the four Brahma-vihàras is said
to be living in the sublime abode.