Miscellaneous Topics – 2467
human world or in the world of the Devas. In this case the meritorious deeds
that send him to the fortunate destinations is called the process caused by
productive deeds (
kamma-bhava
) and the resultant mental aggregates and
corporeality born of productive deeds pertaining to the fortunate existences are
called the arising of rebirth (
upapatti-bhava
). This is how clinging to sense
pleasures leads to a meritorious process caused by productive deeds and the
result thereof.
Another worldling may have heard or have the idea that the Brahma world of
the form realm or formless realm has higher sense pleasures than those of the
sensuous sphere. And, being obsessed by the allurement of superior sense
pleasures of the Brahma world, he practises absorption (
jhāna
) of the form
realm or the formless realm, and achieves it, and, as the result, he is reborn in
the form realm or the formless realm.
In this case the meritorious deeds of that worldling pertaining to the form realm
or formless realm that send him to the form realm and the formless realm are
called the process caused by productive deeds (
kamma-bhava
) and the resultant
mental aggregates and the corporeality born of productive deeds of the form
realm and the resultant mental aggregates of the formless realm are called the
arising of rebirth (
upapatti-bhava
). This is how clinging to sense pleasures gives
rise to a process caused by productive deeds and the result thereof.
Another worldling, clinging to the wrong view of annihilation or extinction,
believes firmly that the self becomes fully extinct only in a fortunate existence
of the sensuous sphere, or in the form realm, or in the formless realm, and
accordingly acquires merit pertaining to the sensuous sphere that leads to a
fortunate existence in the sensuous sphere, or the exalted type of merit
(
mahaggata
) which is sublimated due to absence of the hindrances. The merit of
this worldling pertaining to the sensuous sphere and the Brahma realms of the
form realm and the formless realm are called the process caused by productive
deeds (
kamma-bhava
), and the resultant mental aggregate and the corporeality
born of productive deeds are called the arising of rebirth (
upapatti-bhava
). This
is how clinging to wrong view gives rise to a process caused by productive deeds
and the resultant thereof.
Another worldling, under the influence of clinging to an illusory self (
atta
),
firmly believes that the self attains real happiness in a fortunate existence of the
sensuous sphere, or in the form realm, or in the formless realm, and accordingly