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This was said by the Blessed One,
said by the Arahant, so I have heard: "I have seen beings who -- endowed with
bodily good conduct, verbal good conduct, & mental good conduct; who did
not revile noble ones, who held right views and undertook actions under the
influence of right views -- at the break-up of the body, after death, have
re-appeared in the good destination, the heavenly world. It is not from having
heard this from other priests & contemplatives that I tell you that I have
seen beings who -- endowed with bodily good conduct, verbal good conduct, &
mental good conduct; who did not revile noble ones, who held right views and
undertook actions under the influence of right views -- at the break-up of the
body, after death, have re-appeared in the good destination, the heavenly
world. It is from having known it myself, seen it myself, realized it myself
that I tell you that I have seen beings who -- endowed with bodily good
conduct, verbal good conduct, & mental good conduct; who did not revile
noble ones, who held right views and undertook actions under the influence of
right views -- at the break-up of the body, after death, have re-appeared in
the good destination, the heavenly world. "
With mind rightly directed,
speaking right speech,
doing right deeds with the body:
a person here
of much learning,
a doer of merit
here in this life so short,
at the break-up of the body,
discerning,
reappears in heaven.
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