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FOUR KINDS OF GENERATION
32. "Sariputta, there are these four kinds of generation. What are the four
Egg-born generation, womb-born generation, moisture-born generation and spontaneous generation.
33. "What is egg-born generation
There are these beings born by breaking out of the shell of an egg; this is called egg-born generation. What is womb-born generation
There are these beings born by breaking out from the caul; this is called womb-born generation. What is moisture-born generation
There are these beings born in a rotten fish, in a rotten corpse, in rotten dough, in a cesspit, or in a sewer; this is called moisture-born generation. What is spontaneous generation
There are gods and denizens of hell and certain human beings and some beings in the lower worlds; this is called spontaneous generation. These are the four kinds of generation.
34. "Sariputta, when I know and see thus, should anyone say of me... he will wind up in hell.
THE FIVE DESTINATIONS AND NIBBANA — IN BRIEF
35. "Sariputta, there are these five destinations. What are the five
Hell, the animal realm, the realm of ghosts, human beings and gods.[15]
36. (1) "I understand hell, and the path and way leading to hell. And I also understand how one who has entered this path will, on the dissolution of the body, after death, reappear in a state of deprivation, in an unhappy destination, in perdition, in hell.
(2) "I understand the animal realm, and the path and way leading to the animal realm. And I also understand how one who has entered this path will, on the dissolution of the body, after death, reappear in the animal realm.
(3) "I understand the realm of ghosts, and the path and way leading to the realm of ghosts. And I also understand how one who has entered this path will, on the dissolution of the body, after death, reappear in the realm of ghosts.
(4) "I understand human beings, and the path and way leading to the human world. And I also understand how one who has entered this path will, on the dissolution of the body, after death, reappear among human beings.
(5) "I understand the gods, and the path and way leading to the world of the gods. And I also understand how one who has entered this path will, on the dissolution of the body, after death, reappear in a happy destination, in the heavenly world.
(6) "I understand Nibbana, and the path and way leading to Nibbana. [74] And I also understand how one who has entered this path will, by realizing it for himself with direct knowledge, here and now enter upon and abide in the deliverance of mind and deliverance by wisdom that are taintless with the destruction of the taints.
THE FIVE DESTINATIONS AND NIBBANA — IN DETAIL
37. (1) "By encompassing mind with mind I understand a certain person thus: ”This person so behaves, so conducts himself, has taken such a path that on the dissolution of the body, after death, he will reappear in a state of deprivation, in an unhappy destination, in perdition, in hell.” And then later on, with the pine eye, which is purified and surpasses the human, I see that on the dissolution of the body, after death, he has reappeared in a state of deprivation, in an unhappy destination, in perdition, in hell, and is experiencing extremely painful, racking, piercing feelings. Suppose there were a charcoal pit deeper than a man”s height full of glowing coals without flame or smoke; and then a man scorched and exhausted by hot weather, weary, parched and thirsty, came by a path going in one way only and directed to that same charcoal pit. Then a man with good sight on seeing him would say: ”This person so behaves, so conducts himself, has taken such a path, that he will come to this same charco…
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