Studies in the Origins of Buddhism c19.s1.25

c19.s1.25

In the fourth “sukhassa ca pahānā dukkhassa ca pahānā pubbēva somanassadomanassānaṃ atthaṅgamā adukkhaṃ asukhaṃ upekkhāsatiparisuddhiṃ catutthajjhānaṃ upasampajja viharati”. Sukha also disappears. According to SN. IV. 225-8 Sukha increases through all the Jhānas and even the Āruppas. Sukha is here apparently used in a peculiar sense. Only lucid mindfulness (Parisuddhā sati) remains; the Bhikkhu is now just pure mind (so imameva kāyaṃ parisuddhena cetasā pariyodātena pharitvā nisinno hoti, nāssa kiñci sabbāvato kāyassa parisuddhena cetasā pariyodātena apphuṭaṃ hoti—op. cit. p. 86). The citta is now concentrated, clear, pure, pliant, efficient and motionless (Evaṃ samāhite citte parisuddhe pariyodāte anaṅgaṇe vigatūpakkilese mudubhūte kammaniye ṭhite āneñjappatte....” Ib. 87, MN. I. 22).