[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Buddhist Sanskrit literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit) › [Āgama sūtras of the mainstream schools](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama) › [Āyuḥparyantasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.ayuhparyantasutra) › [ཚེའི་མཐའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.ayuhparyantasutra*bo) › [The Limits of Life](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.ayuhparyantasutra*bo~en-84000) › notes.10 # ཚའ་མཐའ་མད notes.10 The Limits of Life notes.10 - **Language:** English ### [notes.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.ayuhparyantasutra*bo~en-84000.notes.10) 10. “Ordinary” here means that this state is also attained by ordinary persons (pṛthagjana), i.e., those who have not achieved one of the stages that characterize noble persons (ārya-pudgala). Vasubandhu explains in the AKBh (AKBh(P), 68–69 on AK II.42): “To which bhūmi does it belong? 42b. In the Fourth Dhyāna. In order to cultivate this absorption, the ascetic should have entered the Fourth Dhyāna. Why does one cultivate it? 42c. Through desire for deliverance. The ascetic falsely imagines that āsaṃjñika, the non-consciousness that constitutes the result of the non-conscious absorption, is true deliverance. Āsaṃjñika, being retribution, is necessarily morally neutral. As for the non-conscious absorption, it is 42d. Good. It produces as its retributive result the five skandhas of a nonconscious god, who, as we know, is conscious at birth and at death \[…\]. This absorption is cultivated only by Pṛthagjanas. 42f. Not by Āryans. The Āryans consider this absorption as a precipice, a calamity, and do not value entering it. On the contrary, Pṛthagjanas identify non-consciousness (āsaṃjñika) with true deliverance; they have no idea of ‘going out’ with respect to it; hence they cultivate the absorption that leads to it. But Āryans know that the impure cannot be true deliverance. Hence they do not cultivate this absorption” (tr. Pruden 1988–90, vol. 1, 223–24; the numbers followed by letters in the citation indicate the pādas of the verse that is commented upon). - [Previous: notes.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.ayuhparyantasutra*bo~en-84000.notes.9) - [Next: notes.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.ayuhparyantasutra*bo~en-84000.notes.11) - [Up: notes](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.ayuhparyantasutra*bo~en-84000.notes) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.ayuhparyantasutra*bo~en-84000.notes.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.ayuhparyantasutra*bo~en-84000.notes.10) · Pramāṇa