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future life which will be formed as a result. He may see the same
life as he has wished for at the shrine, or it may be a different
one, which is more often the case. Whatever the new life may be
the yogi again analyses the nàma-råpa phenomena of the new
person and correlates the five future effects viz., vi¤¤àõa, nàmaråpa,
saëàyatana, phassa and vedanà (see Chapter 8, page 312)
with the five present causes. If he can actually observe the five
future effect being formed as the results of the five present
causes, then he is assured convincingly that the present and
the future correlation of the Law of Dependent Origination
holds.
The causal relations as described by the Law of Dependent
Origination and the 24 conditions of Paññhàna are the major causal
relations which govern the arising and dissolving the mental
and corporeal phenomena occurring in ourselves as well as in
others. There are certain immediate causes which the yogi has
to investigate.
For example, four causes must be present for the arising of
cakkhu-dvàra vãthi (the eye-door cognitive series). These causes
are the eye-door, the visible object, light and manasikàra
(attention). similar four causes are respectively required for the
arising of the other door-cognitive series.
Again in each cognitive series (vãthi), kusala cittas (moral
kamma-formations) arise as javanas if there is ‘yoniso manasikàra
(wise reflection), and akusala cittas (immoral kamma-formations)
arise as javanas if there is ‘ayoniso manasikàra’ (unwise reflection).
Depending on these kamma-formations again, rebirth consciousness
as well as other resultant consciousness arise in the
next life.