諸經要集 12.95

12.95

Fifteenth, regarding the intermediate existence: dying in heaven and being reborn back in heaven, there is no suffering or affliction. Unlike other sons of the devas who at the time of death suffer the pain of separation from what is loved and fall into the hells, pretas, and animals, such a son of the devas does not lose his personal adornments, nor does any other deva sit in his original place; he sits in a superior heaven. If in the realm of the Four [Heavenly Kings], after death he is born in the Heaven of the Thirty-Three. [Such are the] lovely, superior signs. This is called the path of continuation of the fifteenth intermediate existence.