Path of Freedom [Vimuttimagga]

314 VimuttimaggaQ. How do these three emancipations fulfil one Path through penetration?A. With the signless emancipation, three emancipations are gained. Owingto the signless, there is emancipation of the mind. Although emancipationis gained, there is hankering left, yet; therefore unhankered emancipation iswon. Thus the three emancipations are fulfilled. Through attention (toimpermanence etc.) emancipation of the mind is gained. Through emancipationfrom the sign and attachment, void emancipation is won and the threeemancipations are fulfilled; because if emancipation from attachment isfulfilled, it also is emancipation due to attention to the sign. Thus afterattaining to the three emancipations the one Path is fulfilled.EMANCIPATION AND THE ENTRANCE INTO ITQ. What is the difference between emancipation and the entrance intoemancipation? A. The freedom from the defilements that cloud Pathknowledgeis emancipation. The entry into the sublime way [460] is entranceinto emancipation. Again emancipation is only Path-knowledge; its objectwhich is Nibbdna is called the entering into emancipation.ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-FOUR DEFILEMENTSThere are one hundred and thirty-four defilements. They are the threeimmoral roots, the three kinds of seeking, the four cankers, the four knots,the four floods, the four yokes, the four clingings, the four wrong coursesof action, the five kinds oFmeanness, the five hindrances, the six roots ofcontention, the seven latencies, the eight worldly conditions, the nine conceits,the ten defilements, the ten courses of immoral action, the ten fetters, the tenerrors, the twelve reversals, the twelve risings of immoral consciousness.THREE IMMORAL ROOTSHere, the three immoral roots are lust, hatred and delusion. 1 (Of thesethree), hatred is thinned in two Paths. It perishes without remainder in thePath of Non-return. Lust and delusion are thinned in three Paths. Theyperish without remainder in the Path of Saintship.THE THREE KINDS OF SEEKINGThe three kinds of seeking are the seeking for pleasure, for existence andfor holiness. 2 Of these three, the seeking for holiness is destroyed withoutremainder in the Path of Stream-entrance. The seeking for pleasure isdestroyed in the Path of Non-return. And the seeking for existence isdestroyed in the Path of Saintship.1. D. Ill, 214: Tint akusala muldni. Lobho akusala-miilam, doso akusala-mulam, mohoakusala-mulam.2. Ibid. 216: 77sso esand. Kdmesand, bhavesand, brahmacariyesand.