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grasping [räga], hatred [dosa] and delusion [moha]. When the mind is sufficiently pure to be released from these three defilements, the mind will attain the Formless Brahma Body. The defilements associated with the Formless Brahma Body are subtle sense-grasping [kamaräga anusayä], annoyance [pätighä anusayä] and subtle ignorance [avijjä anusayä]. When the mind is sufficiently pure to be released from these three defilements, the mind will attain the first Dhamma Body [Dhammak äya Gotrabhu] and that person will become a person enlightened at the level of the Gotrabhu attainer [gotrabhu puggala]. Having attained the first Body of Enlightenment, the meditator uses this Body of Enlightenment to examine the Four Noble Truths in the Physical Human Body and the Subtle Human Body both forwards [anuloma] and in reverse [pätoloma]. In this way, the Sotäpana Body of Enlightenment [Dhammakäya Sotäpana] will be attained. That person will become a stream-enterer [sotäpana]—the first level of Buddhist sainthood—who has managed to release themselves from the lower fetters of self-view [sakkayaditthi], doubt [vicikicchä] and attachment to rites and rituals [silabbatapamäda]. Having attained the Sotäpana Body of Enlightenment, the meditator uses this Body of Enlightenment to examine the Four Noble Truths in the Angelic Body both forwards [anuloma] and in reverse [pätoloma]. In this way, the meditator will manage to diminish the three fetters of grasping [räga], hatred [dosa] and delusion [moha] — and that person will attain the Sakidägämi Body of Enlightenment [Dhammakäya Sakidägämï]. That person will become a once-returner [sakidägämï]—the second level of Buddhist sainthood who has diminished the worst of grasping [räga],