cooran wrote:Really vishuroshan? How do you know this person is an Arahant?
With metta,
Chris
Further info re above:
A Puthujjana cannot take
the mind of an Arahant as an object. And also a Sotāpanna, a
Sakadāgāmī and an Anāgāmī cannot take the mind of an
Arahant as object. Why? It is simply because they have not
attained these Cittas. If they had attained these Cittas, they
might be able to take these Cittas as objects. Since they have
not yet attained them, they cannot take them as objects.
That means a Puthujjana cannot take Sotāpatti-magga
or Sotāpatti-phala as objects simply because he has not
attained those Cittas. What about the Sotāpanna? Can he take
the Sakadāgāmī-magga and Phala as objects? No, he cannot
take those higher states as object. The lower Noble Persons
cannot take the consciousness of higher Noble Persons. Higher
Noble Persons can take the consciousness of lower Noble
Persons.
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http://buddhispano.net/sites/default/fi ... dies-I.pdf