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time Bikinis, when after a very long period this world is 

 destined. On the destruction of the world very many 

 beings obtain existence in the Abassara Brahma Loka, 

 (which is the sixth in the series and in which the term of 

 life never exceeds 8 calpas) They are there spiritual 

 beings (having purified bodies uncontaminated with evil 

 passions or with any corporeal defilement) : they have in- 

 tellectual pleasures : are self resplendent, traverse the at- 

 mosphere without impediment, and remain for a long time 

 established in happiness. After a very long period this 

 mundane system is reproduced, and the world named Brah- 

 ma Wimane, (the third of the Brahma Lokas) comes into 

 existence, but uninhabited." 



" At that time a Being, in consequence either of the 

 period of residence in Abassara being expired, or in conse- 

 quence of some deficiency in merit preventing him from 

 living there the full period, ceased to exist in Abassara* 

 and was reproduced in the uninhabited Brahma Wimane. 

 He was there a spiritual being : his pleasures were intellec- 

 tual : he was self resplendent, traversed the atmosphere, 

 and for a long time enjoyed uninterrupted felicity, After 

 living there a very long period in solitude a desire of hav- 

 ing an associate is felt by him, and he says, Would that an- 

 other being were dwelling in this place. At that precise 

 juncture another being ceasing to exist in Abassara, comes 

 into existence in the Brahma Wimane in the vicinity of 



remain for ever identically the same. " v3?£z&®&)3f%Zx£>i3& ®Qo®zs)dQ 



<9^c3dd^<SqLS3Sc^<S)9e5e^s5<9s335i<9 Sassato attacha lokocha 

 Wanjho kutatto Esikattayi titlio teclia satta sandliawanti sansa- 

 ranti cliawanti uppajjanti atthitwe sassati samanti. The fourth 



class are reasoners who by induction arrive at the same conclusion. 



