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7 Vedanà-paccayà taõhà –
Dependent on feeling arises craving.
8 Taõhà-paccayà upàdànaü – Dependent on craving arises
grasping.
9 Upàdàna-paccayà bhavo – Dependent on grasping arises
the rebirth-producing kamma (kamma-bhava) and the
rebirth-process (upapatti-bhava).
10 Bhava-paccayà jàti – Dependent on the rebirth-producing
kamma (in the present life) arises rebirth (in the future
life).
11 Jàti-paccayà jarà-maranaü-soka-parideva-dukkha-domanassa,
upàyàsà sambhavanti = Dependent on rebirth arise old
age, death, worry, lamentation, pain, grief and despair.
Thus arises the whole mass of suffering again in the future.
Explanation of the Causal Relations
1 Avijjà-paccayà Saïkhàrà
Avijjà conditions saïkhàra to arise or, in other words, saïkhàra
arises as a consequence of avijjà.
Now avijjà is ignorance or delusion. Essentially it is moha
present in 12 akusala-cittas. As ignorance, it veils man’s mental
eyes preventing him from seeing the true nature of things. As
delusion it tricks beings by making life appear to them as
permanent, pleasant, substantial (atta) and beautiful (subha)
while everything in reality is impermanent, liable to suffering,
void of substance (I), and loathsome.
There are eight important objects (departments) which are
covered by avijjà so that their true nature is not known. These
are: (1) dukkha sacca, (2) samudaya sacca, (3) nirodha sacca, (4) magga