Mahanidanasutta 33.1-17
Mahānidānasutta 33.1-17
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- Pāli
33.1
Satta kho, ānanda, viññāṇaṭṭhitiyo, dve āyatanāni.
Ānanda, there are seven planes of consciousness and two dimensions.
33.2
Katamā satta?
What seven?
33.3
Santānanda, sattā nānattakāyā nānattasaññino, seyyathāpi manussā, ekacce ca devā, ekacce ca vinipātikā.
There are sentient beings that are diverse in body and diverse in perception, such as human beings, some gods, and some beings in the underworld.
33.4
Ayaṃ paṭhamā viññāṇaṭṭhiti.
This is the first plane of consciousness.
33.5
Santānanda, sattā nānattakāyā ekattasaññino, seyyathāpi devā brahmakāyikā paṭhamābhinibbattā.
There are sentient beings that are diverse in body and unified in perception, such as the gods reborn in the Divinity’s host through the first absorption.
33.6
Ayaṃ dutiyā viññāṇaṭṭhiti.
This is the second plane of consciousness.
33.7
Santānanda, sattā ekattakāyā nānattasaññino, seyyathāpi devā ābhassarā.
There are sentient beings that are unified in body and diverse in perception, such as the gods of sublime luminosity.
33.8
Ayaṃ tatiyā viññāṇaṭṭhiti.
This is the third plane of consciousness.
33.9
Santānanda, sattā ekattakāyā ekattasaññino, seyyathāpi devā subhakiṇhā.
There are sentient beings that are unified in body and unified in perception, such as the gods of universal beauty.
33.10
Ayaṃ catutthī viññāṇaṭṭhiti.
This is the fourth plane of consciousness.
33.11
Santānanda, sattā sabbaso rūpasaññānaṃ samatikkamā paṭighasaññānaṃ atthaṅgamā nānattasaññānaṃ amanasikārā ‘ananto ākāso’ti ākāsānañcāyatanūpagā.
There are sentient beings that have gone totally beyond perceptions of form. With the disappearance of perceptions of impingement, not focusing on perceptions of diversity, aware that ‘space is infinite’, they have been reborn in the dimension of infinite space.
33.12
Ayaṃ pañcamī viññāṇaṭṭhiti.
This is the fifth plane of consciousness.
33.13
Santānanda, sattā sabbaso ākāsānañcāyatanaṃ samatikkamma ‘anantaṃ viññāṇan’ti viññāṇañcāyatanūpagā.
There are sentient beings that have gone totally beyond the dimension of infinite space. Aware that ‘consciousness is infinite’, they have been reborn in the dimension of infinite consciousness.
33.14
Ayaṃ chaṭṭhī viññāṇaṭṭhiti.
This is the sixth plane of consciousness.
33.15
Santānanda, sattā sabbaso viññāṇañcāyatanaṃ samatikkamma ‘natthi kiñcī’ti ākiñcaññāyatanūpagā.
There are sentient beings that have gone totally beyond the dimension of infinite consciousness. Aware that ‘there is nothing at all’, they have been reborn in the dimension of nothingness.
33.16
Ayaṃ sattamī viññāṇaṭṭhiti.
This is the seventh plane of consciousness.
33.17
Asaññasattāyatanaṃ nevasaññānāsaññāyatanameva dutiyaṃ.
Then there is the dimension of non-percipient beings, and secondly, the dimension of neither perception nor non-perception.
Translations (4)
- Большое наставление об обусловленности — Russian
- Dugi govor o uzročnosti — sr
- The Great Discourse on Causation — English
- Die große Lehrrede über das Kausalprinzip — German
Commentaries (1)
- Sumaṅgalavilāsinī — Buddhaghosa, Pāli