Dighanikaya 11.499_2

11.499_2

Idānissa nirujjhanūpāyaṃ dassento ‘‘viññāṇassa nirodhena etthetaṃ uparujjhatī’’ti āha. Tattha viññāṇanti carimakaviññāṇampi abhisaṅkhāraviññāṇampi, carimakaviññāṇassāpi hi nirodhena etthetaṃ uparujjhati. Vijjhātadīpasikhā viya apaṇṇattikabhāvaṃ yāti. Abhisaṅkhāraviññāṇassāpi anuppādanirodhena anuppādavasena uparujjhati. Yathāha ‘‘sotāpattimaggañāṇena abhisaṅkhāraviññāṇassa nirodhena ṭhapetvā sattabhave anamatagge saṃsāre ye uppajjeyyuṃ nāmañca rūpañca etthete nirujjhantī’’ti sabbaṃ cūḷaniddese vuttanayeneva veditabbaṃ. Sesaṃ sabbattha uttānamevāti.

Now, showing the means of its ceasing, he said: "with the cessation of consciousness, here this ceases." Therein, "consciousness": both the terminal consciousness and the karma-formative consciousness; for with the cessation of the terminal consciousness, here this ceases. Like the flame of an extinguished lamp, it goes to the state of conceptlessness. With the cessation by non-arising of the karma-formative consciousness too, it ceases by way of non-arising. As is said: "with the cessation of karma-formative consciousness through the knowledge of the path of stream-entry, except for seven existences, whatever name and form would arise in the beginningless saṃsāra, here these cease"; all should be understood in the manner stated in the Cūḷaniddesa. The rest is clear everywhere.