Early Monastic Buddhism v1.c8.s6.19

v1.c8.s6.19

These four views are attributed by Buddhaghosa to the various experiences acquired by ecstatic meditation. He says that the first (i) view is held by those who have attained the fourth *samāpatti*, while the second (j) by those who have not attained any one of the *samāpattis*. The third (k) and fourth (l) are held by those meditators who have for meditation an object or space or *viññāṇa*, limited (*paritta*) or unlimited (*appamāṇa*). The soul after death has
(m) unmixed happiness (*ekanta-sukhī*), e.g., when a being is in the third or fourth *jhānabhūmi*;
(n) unmixed misery (*ekanta-dukkhī*), e.g., when a being is in hell;