Lal: ‘Vinnana with sobhana cetasika are not considered contaminated.’
Upekkha: “…even a good vinnana is contaminated and … AN ARAHANT CAN’T HAVE ANY SOBHANA CETASIKA..”
In the absence of ANY vinnana, what constitutes an Arahant, what distinctive qualities make him up? If none, we then have to fall back to consider concepts like annihilation of individuality, evaporation, dissolution , a ‘mass of undifferentiated consciousness’….which to me is no different from extinction, non-existence.
Metta