The Conception of Buddhist Nirvana c8.48

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¹ p. 190 ff, but their connection with the degrees of absorption in yoga-meditation is mentioned only in regard to the 4 sampattis on p 198. Cp also B C. Law, Heaven and Hell (Calcutta 1925). The Vātsīputrīyas explained the fact that person having reached in a higher world the condition of a Saint (ārya) could sometimes nevertheless fall back into ordinary humanity and become again a common worldling, by the circumstance that some element of this common worldliness (prthagjanatva) was left dormant in him, it had not been quite eradicated at the time when he became a saint, op. Ab. Kośabh I 40 II 40.