Pramāṇa · Search · About · API

Viyahapannatti 6.9

English (machine translation) 6.9

Language
English

6.9.317

"Venerable Sir! When a jīva binds knowledge-obscuring karma, how many karma configurations does it bind?"
"Gautama! It is a binder of seven types, or a binder of eight types, or a binder of six types. The chapter on binding is to be understood according to the Prajñāpanā."

6.9.318

"Venerable Sir! Is a deva of great supernatural power, up to: of great influence, capable of magically transforming a single color and a single form without grasping external pudgalas?"
"Gautama! That meaning is not valid."
"Venerable Sir! Having grasped external pudgalas, is a deva capable of magically transforming a single color and a single form?"
"Yes, he is capable."
"Venerable Sir! Does he magically transform having grasped pudgalas present here? Having grasped pudgalas present there? Having grasped pudgalas present elsewhere?"
"Gautama! He does not magically transform having grasped pudgalas present here; he magically transforms having grasped pudgalas present there; he does not magically transform having grasped pudgalas present elsewhere.
In this manner, by this method, up to: (1) a single color and a single form, (2) a single color and manifold forms, (3) manifold colors and a single form, (4) manifold colors and manifold forms—a fourfold combination.
"Venerable Sir! Is a deva of great supernatural power, up to: of great influence, capable of transforming a black pudgala into the nature of a blue pudgala, or a blue pudgala into the nature of a black pudgala, without grasping external pudgalas?"
"Gautama! That meaning is not valid. Having grasped [them], he is capable."
"Venerable Sir! Does he transform having grasped pudgalas present here? Having grasped pudgalas present there? Having grasped pudgalas present elsewhere?"
"Gautama! He does not transform having grasped pudgalas present here; he transforms having grasped pudgalas present there; he does not transform having grasped pudgalas present elsewhere.
In this manner, by this method, up to: (1) a single color and a single form, (2) a single color and manifold forms, (3) manifold colors and a single form, (4) manifold colors and manifold forms—a fourfold combination.
Thus a black pudgala into the nature of a red pudgala. Thus from black up to white. Thus from blue up to white. Thus from red up to white. Thus from yellow up to white. Thus according to this sequence for scents, flavors, and touches."

6.9.319

"Venerable Sir! Does a deva of impure leśyā, through an unabsorbed self, know and see a deva, a devī, or anyone else of impure leśyā?"
"That meaning is not valid."
"Likewise: (2) a deva of impure leśyā through an unabsorbed self [knows and sees] a deva of pure leśyā? (3) a deva of impure leśyā through an absorbed self a deva of impure leśyā? (4) a deva of impure leśyā through an absorbed self a deva of pure leśyā? (5) a deva of impure leśyā through a partly absorbed and partly unabsorbed self a deva of impure leśyā? (6) a deva of impure leśyā through a partly absorbed and partly unabsorbed self a deva of pure leśyā? (7) a deva of pure leśyā through an unabsorbed self a deva of impure leśyā? (8) a deva of pure leśyā through an unabsorbed self a deva of pure leśyā? [—in all these eight cases, he does not]. (9) Venerable Sir! Does a deva of pure leśyā, through an absorbed self, know and see a deva of impure leśyā?"
"Yes, he knows and sees."
"Likewise: (10) a deva of pure leśyā through an absorbed self a deva of pure leśyā; (11) a deva of pure leśyā through a partly absorbed and partly unabsorbed self a deva of impure leśyā; (12) a deva of pure leśyā through a partly absorbed and partly unabsorbed self a deva of pure leśyā."
"That is so, Venerable Sir! That is so, Venerable Sir!"

Translations (2)

Commentaries (2)

Linked texts (1)