{"id":"an7.44","title":"Planes of Consciousness","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"an7.44","title":"Planes of Consciousness","units":[{"id":"an7.44:0","sourceIds":["an7.44:0.1","an7.44:0.2","an7.44:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Aṅguttara Nikāya 7.44\n5. Mahāyaññavagga\nSattaviññāṇaṭṭhitisutta","en":"Numbered Discourses 7.44\n5. A Great Sacrifice\nPlanes of Consciousness"}},{"id":"an7.44:1","sourceIds":["an7.44:1.1","an7.44:1.2","an7.44:1.3","an7.44:1.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Sattimā, bhikkhave, viññāṇaṭṭhitiyo.\nKatamā satta?\nSanti, bhikkhave, sattā nānattakāyā nānattasaññino, seyyathāpi manussā, ekacce ca devā, ekacce ca vinipātikā.\nAyaṁ paṭhamā viññāṇaṭṭhiti.","en":"“Mendicants, there are these seven planes of consciousness.\nWhat seven?\nThere are sentient beings that are diverse in body and diverse in perception, such as human beings, some gods, and some beings in the underworld.\nThis is the first plane of consciousness."}},{"id":"an7.44:2","sourceIds":["an7.44:2.1","an7.44:2.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Santi, bhikkhave, sattā nānattakāyā ekattasaññino, seyyathāpi devā brahmakāyikā paṭhamābhinibbattā.\nAyaṁ dutiyā viññāṇaṭṭhiti.","en":"There are sentient beings that are diverse in body and unified in perception, such as the gods reborn in the Divinity’s host through the first absorption.\nThis is the second plane of consciousness."}},{"id":"an7.44:3","sourceIds":["an7.44:3.1","an7.44:3.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Santi, bhikkhave, sattā ekattakāyā nānattasaññino, seyyathāpi devā ābhassarā.\nAyaṁ tatiyā viññāṇaṭṭhiti.","en":"There are sentient beings that are unified in body and diverse in perception, such as the gods of sublime luminosity.\nThis is the third plane of consciousness."}},{"id":"an7.44:4","sourceIds":["an7.44:4.1","an7.44:4.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Santi, bhikkhave, sattā ekattakāyā ekattasaññino, seyyathāpi devā subhakiṇhā.\nAyaṁ catutthā viññāṇaṭṭhiti.","en":"There are sentient beings that are unified in body and unified in perception, such as the gods of universal beauty.\nThis is the fourth plane of consciousness."}},{"id":"an7.44:5","sourceIds":["an7.44:5.1","an7.44:5.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Santi, bhikkhave, sattā sabbaso rūpasaññānaṁ samatikkamā paṭighasaññānaṁ atthaṅgamā nānattasaññānaṁ amanasikārā ‘ananto ākāso’ti ākāsānañcāyatanūpagā.\nAyaṁ pañcamā viññāṇaṭṭhiti.","en":"There are sentient beings that have gone totally beyond perceptions of form. With the disappearance of perceptions of impingement, not focusing on perceptions of diversity, aware that ‘space is infinite’, they have been reborn in the dimension of infinite space.\nThis is the fifth plane of consciousness."}},{"id":"an7.44:6","sourceIds":["an7.44:6.1","an7.44:6.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Santi, bhikkhave, sattā sabbaso ākāsānañcāyatanaṁ samatikkamma ‘anantaṁ viññāṇan’ti viññāṇañcāyatanūpagā.\nAyaṁ chaṭṭhā viññāṇaṭṭhiti.","en":"There are sentient beings that have gone totally beyond the dimension of infinite space. Aware that ‘consciousness is infinite’, they have been reborn in the dimension of infinite consciousness.\nThis is the sixth plane of consciousness."}},{"id":"an7.44:7","sourceIds":["an7.44:7.1","an7.44:7.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Santi, bhikkhave, sattā sabbaso viññāṇañcāyatanaṁ samatikkamma ‘natthi kiñcī’ti ākiñcaññāyatanūpagā.\nAyaṁ sattamā viññāṇaṭṭhiti.","en":"There are sentient beings that have gone totally beyond the dimension of infinite consciousness. Aware that ‘there is nothing at all’, they have been reborn in the dimension of nothingness.\nThis is the seventh plane of consciousness."}},{"id":"an7.44:8","sourceIds":["an7.44:8.1","an7.44:8.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Imā kho, bhikkhave, satta viññāṇaṭṭhitiyo”ti.\nPaṭhamaṁ.","en":"These are the seven planes of consciousness.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/an7.44/en/sujato","licence":"CC0 1.0","licenceUrl":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","editionNote":"Full supplied source file; inherited abbreviations are preserved. Not a reconstructed expansion of every repetition. No Malay or Mandarin translation is implied."}