THE GREAT CHRONICLE OF BUDDHAS
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namely,
satta-loka
(the world of sentient beings) and
sa~khÈra-loka
(the
world of conditioned things), come into existence? In what do all beings,
such as devas, humans and BrahmÈs, intimately associate themselves with
taÓhÈ
-
diÔÔhi
(craving and wrong view), thinking ‘I’ and ‘mine’. After what
are
satta-loka
and
sa~khÈra-loka
so called? When what clearly appears do all
beings, such as devas, humans and BrahmÈs, become miserable?
Thereupon the Buddha, intending to answer the question put by Hemavata Deva on the
strength of the six
ajjhattikÈyatanas
(internal organs of sense, namely, eye, ear, nose,
tongue, body and mind) and of the six
bÈhirÈyatanas
(external objects of sense, namely,
form, sound, smell, taste, contact and idea formed in the mind), replied (by reciting this
verse):
Chasu loko samuppanno;
chasu kubbati santhavaÑ.
Channam eva upÈdÈya;
chasu loko vihaÒÒati.
Hemavata Deva, when the six
ajjhattikÈyatanas
(internal organs) and the six
bÈhirÈyatanas
(external objects) evidently come into existence, the two
worlds,
satta-loka
and
sa~khÈra-loka
, come into existence. (In terms of
Absolute Reality (
Paramattha
Dhamma
),
Satta-loka
meaning the aggregate
of beings, i.e., devas, humans and BrahmÈs, is just a compound of these
twelve
Èyatanas
(bases), namely, the six internal: eye, ear, nose, tongue, body
and mind, and the six external: form, sound, smell, taste, contact and idea,
formed in the mind. Without these twelve
Èyatanas,
there can be no such
thing as a being, whether human, deva and BrahmÈ. In terms of
Paramattha
Dhamma
,
sa~khÈra-loka
meaning such things as farm, land, gold, silver,
paddy, etc., only consists of six external
Èyatanas
. Without these six, there
can be no
sa~khÈra-loka
of things inanimate. Hence the Buddha's answer:
‚
Chasu loko samuppanno
—— When the six internal and six external
Èyatanas
come into existence, the two worlds, the world of sentient beings and the
world of conditioned things inanimate, come into existence.‛)
Hemavata Deva, in the six internal and the six external
Èyatanas
do all
beings, i.e., devas, humans and BrahmÈs, intimately associate themselves
with craving and wrong view through the notion of ‘I’ and ‘mine.’ (All
beings, i.e., devas, humans and BrahmÈs, who, in close friendship with
craving and wrong view, take ‘I’, ‘another’, ‘man’, ‘woman’, ‘farm’, ‘land’,
etc. to be ‘I’ and ‘mine’, are a composition of the same six internal and six
external
Èyatanas
in terms of
Paramattha
Dhamma
. This is true. Taking the
eye to be ‘I’ and ‘mine’, beings make friends with craving and wrong view;
taking the ear to be ‘I’ and ‘mine’, they make friends with craving and wrong
view; likewise they do with regard to the nose, the tongue, the body, the
mind and also with regard to the form, the sound, the smell, the taste, the
touch such as hardness or softness, heat or cold, etc., and the idea conceived
in the mind. Hence the Buddha's answer, ‚
Chasu kubbati santhavam
— in the
six internal and the six external
Èyatanas
do all beings, i.e., devas, humans
and BrahmÈs, intimately associate themselves with craving and wrong view
through the notion of ‘I’ and ‘mine.’ )
Hemavata Deva, after the six internal and the six external
Èyatanas
are
sattta-
loka
and
sa~khÈra-loka
so called. (With reference to the aforesaid twelve
Èyatanas
, the names, such as ‘devas’, ‘humans’, ‘BrahmÈs’, ‘beings’ (=
satta-
loka
) and the names, such as ‘farm’, ‘land’, ‘rice’, ‘paddy’, etc., (=
sa~khÈra-
loka
) came into existence clearly. It is to be so understood.)
Hemavata Deva, when the six internal and the six external
Èyatanas
clearly
appear (or, on account of these
Èyatanas
) all beings, i.e., devas, humans and