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We Rebirth In Heavens |
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If someone focus
their mind to particular heaven and need to do following merits activities. |
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Donation, Saving Five
Precepts and Less amount of Meditation
Or...... |
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Devotion to
Buddhism, Five Precepts, Learning Buddhism, Donation and Develop
Wisdom. |
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With these five
skillful actions, if they wish by referring a name of heaven then
they can born in desired heaven. But only for person who had good precepts. |
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Cause of Five
Precepts and Donation, any religious person can born in any heaven. |
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Also these things
help to born in human world, amount of merit help to get poor or rich
life. |
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In Sutra Pitakaya
Lord Buddha described about heaven & there details. - Vimana
Waththu |
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These six heavens
have fixed amount of life time, luxury and powers. |
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Some gods born in
earth by keeping their houses as Big Tree, New houses, Flowers,
Clouds, etc |
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Gods have energy
body which radiate colors and their intensity increased with heaven
& merits |
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Trees, houses,
lakes, etc created in heaven related to merit powers of particular
gods |
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Those are also
radiated energy systems, but also have physical characteristics as such as
smell |
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Here we categorize
six heavens with their main gods and life time in human years |
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| Heaven
Name |
Main
God |
Life
Time in Years |
Extra
Merits Want |
Other
Facts |
| Heaven of four
region (TaturrMahaRajika) |
four main gods in four directions |
9 million |
Donations |
These gods mostly help
to humans.these two heavens
ruled by one main god and second heaven is place to preaching
Dharma |
Twtisa
( Heaven of thirty-three kingdoms) |
Shakra |
36 million |
Donations |
| Yamaya |
Suyama |
144 million |
More Donations |
Not Described. |
| Heaven of Happy
(Tusita) |
Santusitta |
576 million |
Learning Buddhism,
building temples, practice Damma & help to Buddhism |
Only Buddhist people
born in this heaven, so they live with happy and harmony |
| Heaven of Creations
(Nirmana Rathi) |
Sunirmitha |
2304 million |
More Precepts
&
Likeness to make new creations for benefit of others. |
This heaven got this
name cause they like to make new creations & have wonderful body
color |
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Parinirmitha Vasavarthi |
Vasawarthi |
9216 million |
Mediation |
This heaven got this
name cause they enjoy all lust & material stuff what they wish. |
Review
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People who have ESP
powers see these heavens and misunderstand that they have immortal lives |
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This happen cause
some heavens have huge number of years as their life time |
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But after their life
time and merit over, again they drop down to rebirth cycle |
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Lord Buddha
said lot of gods rebirth low level life styles as animal,
ghosts and human |
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However enlighten
gods not come to human world, so they can rebirth in same
heaven |
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Apart from gods
there have Asura World who are same as gods in 2nd heaven but stay on
ocean |
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They do opposite
things to five precepts, so gods in 2nd heaven don't like their
staying on heaven. |
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Also there have more
powerful creatures called Mara who have power than gods & Brahma
gods |
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This Mara group also
creatures who are unsteady & one kind of life style on rebirth
cycle. |
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Their king is Bad
One of Death or Papima Mara who is controller for all bad things
& unskillful actions |
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Lord Buddha
said Mara has most great controlling power in all universe. |
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Mara & his servants
are encourage people & gods to stay on rebirth cycle & give
all physical things. |
Great
Heavens - Brahma Loka
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Person who do
meditation, they rebirth according to their meditate state in 20 great
heavens |
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According to Dayana
& related least, middle & higher states they born in these
heavens |
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As example person
who got second Dayana in middle sate born in fifth great heaven |
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Apart from Dayana,
below skillful actions & washings also can help to born in these
heavens. |
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Devotion to
Buddhism, Five Precepts, Learning Buddhism, Donation and Develop
Wisdom. |
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These great heavens are locating
upper than six heavens. |
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Even gods in six
heavens, can't see Brahmas energy body cause they are so powerful |
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These great heavens
haven't women and likeness to sex or five senses |
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Gods of great
heavens achieve life time greater than 9232 million years - *Kappa
time scale |
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Gods of first 16 great
heavens have only energy body - they don't take foods as six heavens |
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Gods of Final four
heavens have only powerful concentrated mind - Final four Dhayana |
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Only enlighten
person rebirth in Tenth to 14th great heavens - Called Five Pure Lands |
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These 1st great heavens
have gods called Brahma and their servants |
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Also each of first 16
heavens are ruled by main Brahma who did extra merits |
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Person who do
Mithree (Kindness) meditation easily can rebirth in these all great heavens
continually. |
Brahma Loka
| Servents of Brahma
(brahma-parisajja deva) |
Ministers of Brahma
(brahma-purohita deva) |
Great Brahmas
(Maha brahma) |
1st
Dhayana
Life Time : One *Kappa |
| Brahmas of small Radiance
(parittabha deva) |
Brahmas of infinitive
Radiance (appamanabha deva) |
Brahmas of Streaming
Radiance (abhassara deva) |
2nd
Dhayana
Life Time : Two *Kappa |
| Brahmas of small Glory
(parittasubha deva) |
Brahmas of
infinitive Glory (appamanasubha deva) |
Brahmas of Refulgent Glory
(subhakinna deva) |
3rd
Dhayana
Life Time : Four *Kappa |
| Brahmas of Very Fruitful
(vehapphala deva) |
4th
Dhayana
Life Time : Five *Kappa |
Brahmas of not Falling Away
(aviha deva)
Untroubled Brahmas
(atappa deva)
Beautiful Brahmas
(sudassa deva)
Clear-sighted Brahmas
(sudassi deva)
Brahmas of Non-junior
(akanittha deva) |
Five Pure Lands -
who born only Anagami enlighten people.
Lord Buddha said to all house hold people to try to born in
these heavens by destroying first five Sanyojana - Theory of
soul, Doubts to Damma, Observing mere precepts & traditional
functions, Lust for material world & Angry with hate ness.
Life Time : More than Five *Kappa into 100 *Kappa |
| Infinite Space
(akasanañcayatanupaga deva)
Infinite Consciousness (viññanañcayatanupaga deva)
Unconscious beings
(asaññasatta)
Nothingness (akiñcaññayatanupaga
deva)
Neither-perception-nor-non-perception
(nevasaññanasaññayatanupaga deva) |
Life Time : 20,000
Maha *Kappa
Life Time : 40,000 Maha
*Kappa
Life Time : 60,000 Maha *Kappa
Life Time : More than
80,000 Maha *Kappa |
*About Kappa Time Scale : "The Blessed One said:
Possible. Monk, there is a huge rock which is seven miles by the length, breath and the height. It is without a flaw, not perforated and of the same thickness everywhere. After the lapse of one hundred thousand years a man comes with a cashmere cloth and touches the rock once. By this method the rock diminishes and vanishes, but the
Kappa does not come to an end." ( From Pabbatha Sutta : Majjima
Nikaya)
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refer : lankawisdom.com/astrology_god.htm
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