Dighanikaya 33.329

33.329

Abhijātiyoti jātiyo. Kaṇhābhijātiko samānoti kaṇhe nīcakule jāto hutvā. Kaṇhaṃ dhammaṃ abhijāyatīti kāḷakaṃ dasadussīlyadhammaṃ pasavati karoti. So taṃ abhijāyitvā niraye nibbattati. Sukkaṃ dhammanti ahaṃ pubbepi puññānaṃ akatattā nīcakule nibbatto. Idāni puññaṃ karomīti puññasaṅkhātaṃ paṇḍaraṃ dhammaṃ abhijāyati. So tena sagge nibbattati. Akaṇhaṃ asukkaṃ nibbānanti nibbānañhi sace kaṇhaṃ bhaveyya, kaṇhavipākaṃ dadeyya. Sace sukkaṃ, sukkavipākaṃ dadeyya. Dvinnampi appadānato pana ‘‘akaṇhaṃ asukka’’nti vuttaṃ. Nibbānañca nāma imasmiṃ atthe arahattaṃ adhippetaṃ. Tañhi kilesanibbānante jātattā nibbānaṃ nāma. Taṃ esa abhijāyati pasavati karoti. Sukkābhijātiko samānoti sukke uccakule jāto hutvā. Sesaṃ vuttanayeneva veditabbaṃ.

‘Classes of birth’ means births. ‘Being of dark birth’: having been born in a dark, low family. ‘He engenders a dark state’: he produces, makes, a black state of the ten unvirtuous deeds. Having engendered that, he is reborn in hell. ‘A bright state’: [thinking,] ‘In the past too, through not having performed merits, I was reborn in a low family; now I will make merit,’ he engenders a bright state called merit. Because of that, he is reborn in heaven. ‘Neither-dark-nor-bright Nibbāna’: for if Nibbāna were dark, it would give a dark result; if bright, it would give a bright result; but because of not giving either, it is called ‘neither dark nor bright’. And by ‘Nibbāna’ in this context, arahantship is intended. For having arisen at the end of the Nibbāna of defilements, it is called Nibbāna. He engenders, produces, makes that. ‘Being of bright birth’: having been born in a bright, high family. The rest should be understood just by the method stated.