Path of Freedom [Vimuttimagga]

298 * VimuttimaggaThere are no different signs occur ing here,from the non-born there is no coming here,in the sense that is highest there is nonewho goes or comes. And in the future willno heaping be, but just a going-on.The world does not with dhamma ever mix,One cannot see the future or the source.All dhammas are un-made—they are like space—and rising like the lightning, perish soon.Thus seeing endless destruction, that yogin enters into concentration. Justas in rubbing sticks together for fire, sparks flash forth, just so is the classof enlightenment moments. When illuminattion, joy, calm, bliss, resolve,uplift, presentation, equanimity and desire 1 arise, if he is not intelligent, theyogin will arouse thoughts of distraction or conceit in this state.Q. How can he remove distraction? A. That yogin arouses rapturefor the doctrine. That rapture pacifies his mind; and sitting again, he calmsthe mind and makes it conform to the doctrine. If his mind conforms to thedoctrine, he rejects the idea of permanence through concentration of thereviewing of breaking up. Being free from the idea of permanence, he becomesfamiliar with the method and removes (distraction of mind).Q. How does the yogin remove conceit? A. That yogin causes thearising of illumination in the doctrine at first, believes that he has attainedto the supramundane state, thinks that he has attained what he has notattained and does not endeavour further. Thus he arouses conceit. Theintelligent yogin knows that defilement disturbs meditation, and knows thatworldly states have the formations for object, Thus he knows that the supramundanestate has Nibbdna for object. Having seen thus, he removes distractionand conceit by this knowledge and seeing only breaking up, practiseswell and practises repeatedly.The knowledge which is the discernment of falling away has ended.The Eleventh Fascicle has ended.1. Cp. Vis. Mag. 633: Obhaso, ndnam, piti, passaddhi. sukham, adhimokkho, paggaho,upatthanarhy upekkha, nikanti. Nikanti is mistranslated into Chinese as renunciation,it being equated with the Sk. nishkranta.