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Buddhist Classics
The Realms of Rebirth
...Continued from Part Three
Deva Section
And whoever is not looking for his own comfort and takes no joy in his household, this one as chief of planets would attain the realm of the Maharajika gods [the kings of the four directions].
Whoever honours mother, father and clan elders, is charitable, patient, and takes no pleasure in quarrelling would be reborn among the Thirty-Three Gods.
Those men who are neither devoted to dispute nor indeed joyful-minded in quarrels but devoted exclusively to righteousness go to the Yama gods.
Those men who have much learning, know the dhamma [by heart], are very wise, longing for mokkha [liberation], completely content with the virtues go to the Tusita [Joyous Heaven] gods.
Those men who by themselves are based on right conduct, giving and monastic discipline, and are full of effort inevitably go to the Nimmanarati [Delighting in Creation] gods.
And those who are of superior virtue, are open-minded and attached to giving, self-control [and] restraint [will be among] the Paranimmittavatti [Controlling Others' Creations] gods.
One attains to the Tavatimsa [Thirty-Three] heaven by right conduct, to the blessing of Brahma's world by jhana meditation and to nibbana by knowledge.
The fruit of one's deeds is pleasant or unpleasant. This fruit has been expounded by me - one goes to a comfortable state because of pleasant deeds; suffering has unpleasant deeds as its origin.
This trio should be pondered: death, disease and indeed old age, separation from things loved, [and whatever] was the fruit of each deed.
In this way one reaches destruction of passions; whoever is free from passions attains meritorious action; thus one renounces evil. You must all listen to this briefly.
This has been spoken by the great isi [that is, the Buddha]: 'Doing what is beneficial for others and avoiding what is harmful to others is meritorious action; evil is the reverse.'
The realms of the devas and men and the three evil regions are the five courses [of rebirth], explained by the Buddha himself to be the three states of existence.
Devas - the fifth section [is concluded]
Illumination of the Five Realms of Existence [is complete]
...Excerpt from Buddhist Scriptures
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