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7. The Chapter on Deities – Paliverse

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7.

The Chapter on Deities

1-3.

Commentary on the Discourse on the Fruition of Non-Returning, Etc.

65-67. In the first of the seventh, "faithlessness" means the state of being faithless. "Lacking wisdom" means the state of being without wisdom. In the second, "negligence" means separation from mindfulness. In the third, "fundamentals of conduct" means morality laid down by way of duties, being the highest conduct. "Trainee state" means the morality regulated for a trainee. "Moralities" means the four great moralities.

4.

Commentary on the Discourse on Delighting in Society

68. In the fourth, "delighting in company" means one who delights in the company of a group. However, among groups such as the group of discourse specialists and so on, one who delights in a group reckoned as one's own following - thus "one who delights in a group." "In solitude" means in bodily seclusion. "The sign of the mind" means the sign of the mind of concentration and insight, the mode of concentration and insight. "Right view" means insight right view. "Concentration" means both path-concentration and fruition-concentration. "Mental fetters" means the ten mental fetters. "Nibbāna" means final Nibbāna without remainder.

5.

Commentary on the Discourse on Deities

69. In the fifth, "being easy to admonish" means the state of being compliant. "Good friendship" means pure friendship. "Respect for the Teacher" means endowed with respect towards the Teacher. This same method applies everywhere.

6.

Commentary on the Concentration Sutta

70. In the sixth, "not peaceful" means not allayed by the opposing mental defilements. "Not sublime" means not ardent. "Not obtained through cessation" means not obtained, not attained through the cessation of mental defilements. "Not attained through unification of mind" means not having reached the state of being fully focused.

7.

Commentary on the Discourse on Being Capable of Realising

71. In the seventh, "here and there" means in each and every distinction. "The ability to witness" means direct experience. "Basis" means cause. "Conducive to relinquishment" and so on are explained in the Visuddhimagga. "One who acts inattentively" means one who does not act well, one who does not act with care. "One who does what is not suitable" means not one who does what is suitable, not one who practises qualities that are beneficial.

8.

Commentary on the Power Discourse

72. In the eighth, "power" means the state of power, the state of strength. "One who acts without perseverance" means not one who acts constantly. The remainder is the same as the method stated below.

9-10.

Commentary on the Pair of Discourses on That Meditative Absorption

73-74. In the ninth, "is not well seen as it really is with right wisdom" means the danger in sensual pleasures as objects and sensual pleasures as defilements is not well seen according to its intrinsic nature with the wisdom of meditative absorption. The tenth is of manifest meaning only.

The Deities Chapter is the seventh.

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