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1. Fully-developed human beings, and fully-developed fivesensed lower animals are born as celestial beings. There are however, variations in their grades, in accordance with their thought-activities.
r One individual, after death is born as a Bhuvana-pau god, another is born as a Vyantara-deva, a third as a Jyotisk and a fourth as a Vaimānika god. One god is born with immense affluence while another has meagre resoures. One god has an agelimit of 33 Sagaropams, while another deva has an age-limit of ten thousand years only. All this state of varying existences is brought about by variations in the nature of thought-activities at death. ]
2. All human beings and lower animals with an agelimit of Hear Asankhyātā,-Innumerable-years, are, as a rule, born as gods. They are born in the deva-lokas upto the Išānadeva-loka with an age-limit equal to or less than their previous age-limit.
[Human beings of this world have an age-limit of OTTI Sankhyata,-Limited-number of years, say, 100 to 125 or 150 at the utmost. All yugalika human beings, lower animals, and birds with an age-limit of S ETTAT Asankhyāta, Innumerable years an infinitesimal part of a Palyopama, residing in a Bharata ksdtra and Bea Airavata ksétra and in any of fifty-six race Antar-dvipas, the islands known as Antar-dvīpas, are born as Bhuvana-pati and Vyantara gods with an age-limit equal to or less than that in their previous life. Yugalika human beings with a higher age-limit are born as gods in the deva-lokas up to Isāna deva-loka, but not beyond, with an age-limit equal to or less than that in their previous life.]
3. Safaris Samūrcchina tiryancas, Lower animals born by themselves, without any uterine cavity, are born as gods in Bhuvana-pati and Vyantara deva-lokas, but not in Jyotisk. Because, they are born with an age-limit of an infinitesimal part of a Palyopama.
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