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15. A class of Graiveyaka celestial beings.
16. A class of Anuttaropapātika
15 A class of self-controlled human beings (664).
16 A class of self-controlled human beings spiritually vigilant (665)
From the above table following note-worthy facts emerge : 1. No female of the class of human beings takes birth in hell VII. 2. A living being belonging to the class of infernal beings cannot
again be born in this very class in its immediately next birth. Similarly, a living being belonging to the class of celestial beings cannot again be born in this very class in its immediately next birth.
3. A living being belonging to the class of celestial beings cannot be born, in its next birth, in the classes of celestial beings, fire-bodied beings, air-bodied beings and vikalendriya beings but can be born in the classes of earth-bodied, water-bodied, plant-bodied and human beings.
4. A living being having sense-organs less than five cannot take its immediately next birth in the class of infernal beings or in the class of celestial beings.
5. A living being belonging to the class of infernal beings can possibly take its immediately next birth in the class of pañcendriya tiryañca. An infernal being inhabiting any of the first six hells can possibly take its immediate next birth in the class of human beings. But no infernal being can take its immediately next birth in the classes of the one-sensed, the two-sensed, the three-sensed and the four-sensed living beings.
6. The case of the fire-bodied and the air-bodied beings is different from that of the earth-bodied etc. A living being taking birth in any one of these two classes should necessarily belong, in its immediately previous birth, to the class either of tiryañca or of human beings. But a living being once born in any one of the above-mentioned two classes, viz. a class of fire-bodied and that of air-bodied cannot be born in the class of human beings in its next birth.
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7. Human beings that are under the influence of wrong faith cannot take their immediately next birth in the celestial regions higher than Sahasrara.
8. Human beings that are not self-controlled (asamyata) or are only partly self-controlled (saṁyatāsaṁyata) cannot take their immediately next birth in Graiveyaka or Anuttara.
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