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Procedure of Tadàlambaõa
Tadàlambaõa (retention) occurs only in kàma-persons when they
are observing kàma-sense objects with kàma-javana-vàra vãthis.
Generally upekkhà-javana or domanassa-javana is followed by
upekkhà-tadàlambaõa whereas somanassa-javana is followed by
somanassa-tadàlambaõa. In practice the following procedure is
observed.
1 After 4 mahà-kiriya upekkhà-javanas and 2 domanassajavanas,
4 mahà-vipàka upekkhà-tadàlambaõas and 2
santiraõa-upekkhà tadàlambaõas may arise.
2 After 4 mahà-kiriya somanassa-javanas and hasituppàdajavana,
4 mahà-vipàka somanassa-tadàlambaõas and one
somanassa-santiraõa tadàlambaõa may arise.
3 After the remaining 10 akusala-javanas and 8 mahà-kusala
javanas, all the 11 tadàlambaõas may arise.
âgantuka Bhavaïga
For a person whose rebirth-consciousness is a somanassa-citta,
his life-continuum must also be a somanassa-bhavaïga for life.
The rebirth-consciousness and the bhavaïga citta of a person
must agree in bhåmi, citta, sampayutta-dhamma (concomitants)
vedanà and saïkhàra.
When that person is angry, his domanassa-javanas cannot
be followed by somanassa-tadàlambaõa and somanassa-bhavaïga
because domanassa-vedanà opposes somanassa-vedanà just like fire
opposing water. But according to his rebirth-consciousness,
somanassa-tadàlambaõa and somanassa-bhavaïga must arise.
In this difficult situation, upekkhà-santiraõa arises once as
an àgantuka-bhàvanà (àgantuka means ‘guest’ or ‘stranger’)
performing bhavaïga-function and not the santiraõa-function.