A Manual of Abhidhamma

by Nārada Thera | 80,494 words | ISBN-13: 9789380336510

In the Abhidhammattha Sangaha there is a brief exposition of the Law of Dependent Origination, followed by a descriptive account of the Causal Relations that finds no parallel in any other philosophy. Edited in the original Pali Text with English Translation and Explanatory Notes by Narada Maha Thera....

Sublime Consciousness

Mahaggata-Cittāni

§ 12. Mahaggatesu pana

  1. tīsu Pathamajjhānika-cittesu tāva aññasamānā terasa cetasikā Viratittayavajjitā dvāvīsati Sobhanacetasikā c'āti pañcatimsa dhammā sangaham gacchanti.
    Karunā - muditā pan'ettha paccekam'eva yojetabbā. Tathā
  2. Dutiyajjhānikacittesu Vitakkavajjā,
  3. Tatiyajjhānikacittesu Vitakka Vicāravajjā,
  4. Catutthajjhānikacittesu Vitakka-Vicāra-Pītivajjā,
  5. Pañcamajjhānikacittesu pana pannarasasu Appamaññāyo na labbhantī'ti sabbathā'pi sattavisati - Mahaggata cittesu pañcakajjhānavasena pañcadhā'va sangaho hoti'ti.

§ 13.

Pañcatimsa catuttimsa - tettimsa ca yathākkamam
Dvattimsa c'eva timseti-pañcadhā'va Mahaggate.

 

(translation)

§ 12.

  1. At first in the three (types of) Sublime First Jhāna consciousness thirty-five factors go into combination-namely, thirteen aññasamāna mental factors, and twenty-two Beautiful mental factors, excluding the three Abstinences.[1] (13 + 22 = 35).
    Here Compassion and Appreciative Joy should be combined separately.[2]
  2. Similarly in the Second Jhāna consciousness Initial Application is excluded.
  3. In the Third Jhāna consciousness Initial Application and Sustained Application are excluded.
  4. In the Fourth Jhāna consciousness Initial Application, Sustained Application and Joy are excluded.
  5. In the fifteen[3] (types of) Fifth Jhāna consciousness the Illimitables are not obtained.

In all the twenty-seven types of Sublime consciousness the combination is fivefold according to the five kinds of Jhānas.

§ 13.

There are respectively thirty-five, thirty-four, thirty-three, thirty-two, and thirty. Fivefold is the combination in the Sublime.

Footnotes and references:

[1]:

They are found only in the lokuttara cittas and the kāmāvacara kusala cittas

[2]:

Because they do not arise simultaneously as their objects vary.

[3]:

i.e., 3 Fifth Jhānas and 12 arūpa jhānas. The Jhāna factors of the arūpa jhānas are identical. Illimitables do not occur in them because they are accompanied by upekkhā

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