8.
The Chapter on Arahantship
1.
Commentary on the Discourse on Suffering
75. In the first of the eighth, "bringing vexation" means bringing destruction, bringing danger. "Bringing fever" means bringing fever by way of bodily and mental fever. "To be expected" means to be desired, inevitably coming to be.
2.
Commentary on the Discourse on Arahantship
76. In the second, "conceit" means imagination by means of birth and so on. "Inferiority complex" means the conceit of 'I am inferior.' "Arrogance" means the conceit of excessive elevation that proceeds having gone beyond. "Overestimation" means the conceit of having attained. "Obstinacy" means the state of rigidity due to wrath and conceit. "Self-deprecation" means the conceit of an inferior person thinking 'I am inferior.'
3.
Commentary on the Discourse on Super-Human Achievement
77. In the third, "super-human achievement" means beyond human achievement. "A distinction of knowledge and vision worthy of the noble ones" means a distinction of knowledge and vision capable of producing the noble state; the meaning is the four paths and the four fruits. "Scheming" means the threefold basis of scheming. "Talking" means talking by praising or disparaging for the purpose of gaining material gain.
4.
Commentary on the Discourse on Happiness and Pleasure
78. "And the source has been initiated for him" means and the cause has become complete and exerted for him. "Delights in the Teaching" means he finds delight in the Teaching. He delights in meditation, or he delights while developing - thus "one who delights in meditation." He delights in abandoning, or he delights while abandoning - thus "one who delights in abandoning." He delights in the threefold solitude - thus "one who delights in solitude." He delights in non-affliction, the state free from suffering - thus "one who delights in non-affliction." He delights in Nibbāna, which is reckoned as absence of obsession - thus "one who delights in absence of obsession."
5.
Commentary on the Discourse on Achievement
79. In the fifth, "not skilled in what leads to profit" means not skilled in what leads to arrival. "Not skilled in what leads to loss" means not skilled in what leads to departure. "Desire" means the desire to act. "Does not protect" means does not guard.
6.
Commentary on the Discourse on Greatness
80. In the sixth, "abundant in light" means abundant in the light of knowledge. "Abundant in exertion" means he makes abundant exertion. "Abundant in inspiration" means abundant in rapture and gladness. "Abundant in non-contentment" means not contented with wholesome mental states. "Not shirking the responsibility" means one whose responsibility has been established, whose energy has been exerted. "And he strives further" means just now and further he indeed makes energy. The seventh is clear in itself.
8-10.
Commentary on the Second Discourse on Hell and So On
82-84. In the eighth, "impudent" means possessed of bodily impudence and so on. The ninth is of clear meaning. In the tenth, "with vexation" means afflicted by the suffering of greed arisen in dependence on great desire. The remainder is clear everywhere.
The Arahantship Chapter is the eighth.