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Dosa – Pañigha – hatred or illwill<br />

Kàmaràga – attachment to sense-objects.<br />

4 Arahatta-magga – It is the fourth magga attainable by<br />

yogis and it may be regarded as the fourth and last stage<br />

of Sainthood. It annihilates all the remaining kilesas and<br />

Fetters.<br />

Ariyas (Noble Persons)<br />

There are eight types of ariyas – namely, four maggaññha-persons<br />

and four phalaññha-persons. The maggaññha-persons, however, exist<br />

only for a conscious moment each, i.e., during the magga-citta<br />

they are experiencing. After the dissolution of the magga-citta,<br />

they become phalaññha-persons.<br />

For example, a person is called sotàpatti-maggaññha person<br />

while the sotàpatti-magga citta is arising in him. After the dissolution<br />

of this citta, sotàpatti-phala citta arises in him and he is known<br />

as a sotàpatti-phalaññha person or sotàpanna from this moment<br />

onwards.<br />

If a sotàpanna again undertakes vipassanà meditation, he will<br />

attain sakadàgàmi-magga in due course. During this second maggacitta,<br />

he is called a sakadàgàmi-maggaññha person. After the<br />

dissolution of this citta, sakadàgàmi-phala citta arises in him and<br />

he is known as a sakadàgàmi-phalaññha person or sakadàgàmi from<br />

this moment onwards.<br />

A sakadàgàmi may again undertake vipassanà meditation.<br />

When he attains the third magga, he is known as an anagamimaggaññha<br />

person while that magga-citta last. As soon as the maggacitta<br />

dissolves, anàgàmi-phala citta arises in him and he is called an<br />

anàgàmi-phalaññha person or anàgàmi from that moment onwards.

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