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4. The Chapter on Deities – Paliverse

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Previous 3. The Chapter on the Vajji Seven

4.

The Chapter on Deities

5.

Commentary on the First Discourse on a Friend

36. "Hard to give" means goods that are hard to relinquish and very precious. "Does what is hard to do" means he does a deed that is not easy to do. "Endures what is hard to endure" means he endures what is hard to bear for the sake of his friend. "Reveals his secrets to him" means he reveals his own secrets to him. "Conceals his secrets" means he does not tell his secrets to others. "Does not despise him when he is ruined" means when his wealth is eliminated, he does not despise him on account of that destruction; he does not harbour inferiority complex towards him nor arrogance towards himself.

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Commentary on the Second Discourse on a Friend

37. In the sixth, "a speaker" means skilled in speech. "Willing to do what others bid" means he is patient with what is said, he carries out the exhortation given. "Profound" means secret, mysterious, based upon meditative absorption, based upon insight, path, fruition and Nibbāna.

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Commentary on the First Discourse on Analytical Knowledge

38. In the seventh, "this is my mental sluggishness" means when mental sluggishness has arisen, he knows "this is my mental sluggishness" according to its intrinsic nature. "Internally contracted" means accompanied by sloth and torpor. "Externally distracted" means distracted among the five types of sensual pleasure. "Feelings" and so on are taken by way of the roots of obsession. For feeling is the root of craving, since craving arises by means of happiness; perception is the root of wrong view, since wrong view arises regarding an obscure object; applied thought is the root of conceit, since conceit as "I am" arises by means of applied thought. "Suitable and unsuitable" means helpful and unhelpful. "Sign" means reason. The remainder is of manifest meaning everywhere.

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