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A number of passages affirm that a tathāgata, or arahant, is " immeasurable ", " inscrutable ", " hard to fathom ", and " not apprehended ".

A tathāgata has abandoned that clinging to the skandhas ( personality factors ) that render citta ( the mind ) a bounded, measurable entity, and is instead " freed from being reckoned by " all or any of them, even in life.

The aggregates of form, feeling, perception, mental formations, and cognizance that comprise personal identity have been seen to be dukkha ( a burden ), and an enlightened individual is one with " burden dropped ".. The Buddha explains " that for which a monk has a latent tendency, by that is he reckoned, what he does not have a latent tendency for, by that is he not reckoned ..

These tendencies are ways in which the mind becomes involved in and clings to conditioned phenomena.

Without them, an enlightened person cannot be " reckoned " or " named "; he or she is beyond the range of other beings, and cannot be " found " by them, even by gods, or Mara.

In one passage, Sariputta states that the mind of the Buddha cannot be " encompassed " even by him.