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Excitement (Skt. auddhatya; Tib. རྒོད་པ་, göpa, Wyl. rgod pa) — one of the fifty-one mental states defined in Abhidharma literature. According to the Compendium of Abhidharma, it belongs to the subgroup of the twenty subsidiary destructive emotions.

Tib. རྒོད་པ་ནི་སྡུག་པའི་མཚན་མའི་རྗེས་སུ་ཞུགས་པའི་འདོད་ཆགས་ཀྱི་ཆར་གཏོགས་པ་སེམས་ཡུལ་ལ་འཕྲོ་བས་ལས་སུ་མི་རུང་ཞིང་མ་ཞི་བར་བྱེད་པ་ཞི་གནས་ཀྱི་བར་དུ་གཅོད་པའོ།
Excitement is a mind which pursues pleasant objects and belongs to the category of desire. As the mind moves to an object, it becomes unserviceable and restless. It is a hindrance to calm abiding. (Rigpa Translations)
Excitement is the fascination with an attractive object and belongs to the category of desire. It is a mental incapacity due to the mind moving towards an object, and it causes restlessness. It is a hindrance to calm abiding. (Erik Pema Kunsang)

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	'''Excitement''' (Skt. ''auddhatya''; Tib. [[རྒོད་པ་]], [[Wyl.]] ''rgod pa'') — one of the [[fifty-one mental states]] defined in [[Abhidharma]] literature. According to the ''[[Compendium of Abhidharma]]'', it belongs to the subgroup of the [[twenty subsidiary destructive emotions]].		'''Excitement''' (Skt. ''auddhatya''; Tib. [[རྒོད་པ་]], ''göpa'', [[Wyl.]] ''rgod pa'') — one of the [[fifty-one mental states]] defined in [[Abhidharma]] literature. According to the ''[[Compendium of Abhidharma]]'', it belongs to the subgroup of the [[twenty subsidiary destructive emotions]].

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