“But when such a person and his citta has been cleansed and well polished throughout, even though he remains the same person, he is entirely different from what he was, as different as the earth and sky. The citta, which has become free from the power of avijja, no longer remains within the limits of the restrictions that apply to all things in the relative world (loka–sammuti). For this citta is utterly free in a manner which is beyond the ability of anyone to guess or speculate about its nature, and this is what they call the realm of ultimate happiness. It is the ground of those who have power above and beyond the state of relative conventions, to possess it and experience it.”
“If we want to know and see this, we must not be lazy, for this laziness is a ploy of all the kilesas, tanha and avijja to lure us away. All of us here are Bhikkhus, complete with all that is necessary. We must rouse ourselves up! Don’t be dull and stupid and let the kilesas come out to display their conceit by behaving in a manner against the way of Dhamma, the Dhamma which leads us out of this mass of Dukkha. For to do this would be a waste of this life in which one has been born and become a vessel, well suited to the Sasana–Dhamma both in the circumstances of one’s birth and social status at the present time.” At this point Venerable Acharn finished his talk about avijja.