The Life Stories of the Monks – 1870
luxuriant as before. The venerables then received the food and rose into the sky
even while she was watching them; and they descended at King Caṇḍapajjota’s
garden called Kañcanavana.
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Having seen Ven. Kaccāna, the gardener went to the king and informed him:
“Great King, our master, the chaplain Kaccāna, became a monk and is visiting
the royal garden.” King Caṇḍapajjota went to the garden and made obeisance to
Ven. Kaccāna, who had finished his meal, venerating him with the hands, knees
and forehead touching the ground and sat at a suitable distance and asked:
“Venerable sir, where is the Fortunate One?” Ven. Kaccāna answered: “Noble
King, the Buddha himself has not come yet, but he has sent me.” The king asked
again: “Venerable sir, from where did you get the meal today?” In replying to
the king’s question, Ven. Kaccāna told the king all about the hard-earned merit
of the lady who was his alms food giver.
Having provided Ven. Kaccāna with accommodation, King Caṇḍapajjota invited
him to the next day’s meal and returned to the palace where he called up the
lady, the food donor, by royal order and made her his Chief Queen. This was the
acquisition of wealth and happiness in the present life by the lady as the result of
the first impulsive wholesome volition (
paṭhama-javana
).
Herein the meaning is: In performing alms giving (
dāna
), there are seven
impulsive moments concerning a great wholesome volition (
mahā-kusala-
cetanā
). Of them, the first impulsive volition results in the present life, if
there are favourable circumstances. Hence, the first impulsive volition is
called a deed resulting in the present life (
diṭṭha-dhamma-vedanīya-
kamma
).
The seventh impulsive volition has a result in the second life, if there are
favourable circumstances. Hence it is called the deed resulting in the
immediately following life (
upapajja-vedanīya-kamma
).
The volition of the middle five impulsions give results in successive lives
from the third, if there are favourable circumstances; hence, any volition
of these middle five impulsions is called a deed giving results in successive
lives (
aparāpariya-vedanīya-kamma
). It means a deed that has results in
successive existences.
When a deed brings about its result, the result is of two kinds: existence
(
bhava
) and acquisition of wealth (
bhava-samāpatti
). The resultant mental
aggregates and the body formed by deeds (
kamma
) that emerge at the time