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The Śāstra says: "Just as upon entering the second dhyāna, the faculty of pain is said to be abandoned." Question: The first dhyāna lacks pain, so its latencies should be eliminated; why is it only in the second dhyāna that it is said to be abandoned? Answer: Because the first dhyāna still has the three consciousnesses, which are the basis for pain; the second dhyāna lacks them, and therefore it is said to be abandoned. Question: The feelings of grief, joy, and pleasure rely on the mental faculty; why is grief said to be renounced in the first dhyāna? Answer: The five consciousnesses of themselves have no antidotal path; only when consciousness is absent is heaviness removed. The mental ground has its own path of abandonment; grief is extinguished right in the first dhyāna. Separating from joy, pleasure, and the like should be understood by analogy with this.