මරණය ( චුති සිත ) Maranaya (Chuthi Sitha ) | Ven Welimada Jinalankara Thero | පුජ්ය වැලිමඩ ජිනාලංකාර හිමි ස්වාමීන්වහන්සේ You will remember 3 Things. They will keep come to your mind.
Karmaya
Karma nimiththa
Gathi Nimiththa
Mind works with an Aramuna. Without Aramuna - there is no mind born.
Those 3 are the Aramunu at near death.
ex: You cleaned the Bothi and temple sometime back in your life.
You remember this. This is called Karmaya.
You have used a broom to sweep while cleaning. This is the Karma Nimiththa.
These remembering happens due to karma Shakthi.
Now these Karma will going to give Vipaka (if coauses fits to that) - then accordingly mind gets images of resulting vipaka (ex: you see gods and divya vimana). This is Gathi Nimiththa.
Same with bad side.
ex: Person who slaughter animals.
When get to the end of life its like a slowing down car.
Normally 17 minds per Roopa has 7 Javans. At near death this reduced to 5 Javans.
This is an explanation of mind and how it works. Part 1 of the video covers about mind and different type of minds when we look in to it very closely. On the second video, banthe explains how that knowledge being applied to Mindfullness (Sathi and then to Samadhi).
Most of this blog post contains highlights and some personal notes I have create from the Dhamma discussion. For the full video please use following links.
Prathisandhi Sitha - First one in the Bava (There are no esa, kana, nasaya...)
Chuthi Sitha - Last one in the Bava
Bavanga Sitha - All sith in between two siths above. We call this the life or living.
Bavanga sitha is Chithakshana 1.
There is Bavanga sith flow - so we see the continuity of sith as one and talk and refer as one (Bavanga sitha).
Sammuthi and paramartha
There are two ways to talk about these concepts - Sammuthi based and on paramartha based. Sammuthis what we see day to day. Paramartha means what they really are in microscopic form. https://youtu.be/PbhKlNqZ9wY?t=22m11s
Most of our day-to-day references to these delicate subjects are based on Sammuthi but that terminology is very ruff and not delicate enough to refer and talk about these subjects bases on Paramartha. For example we cannot see mind, when we di-sect the mind in to many part we talk about even smaller and very very delicate subject.
For the purpose of discussion ease, and to refer to "many of the same thing" we refer to more than one sith (of same kind) as a group or gana (in pali?).
(But I don't know why Banthe referred to the above as Bavanga sitha (again)) - They are two different things as per video 17m12s. https://youtu.be/PbhKlNqZ9wY?t=25m42s
To continue the discussion when one Bavanga Sitha dies it gives the power to next Bavanga Sitha to born. This behavior is called a Chiththa parampara. https://youtu.be/PbhKlNqZ9wY?t=27m40s
Bavanga siths are inactive - they become active when they touch Aramunu and sith lives and dies knowing the Aramunu.
Sithata "Ellenna Deyak Awashyayi". We call this an "Aramuna"
So when a Sith born it born on based to a Aramuna.
https://youtu.be/PbhKlNqZ9wY?t=34m
When we see something, (Thinnag Sangathi Passo) the image is know by chithakshana (17) and comes back to Bavanga Sith. This process is called chiththa Vithi. The one you see in first chiththa Vithi is not the same on the second one. Its a continuous trip between chiththa weethi and Bavanga.
Pancha-ayathana
Ayathana And Sitha - Camera captures the picture, it creates effects on Bavanga Sitha.
Veethi sith - Sith(s) working on the chiththa Veethi. ex. "Went out to see the roopa" there are upto 17 siths in a parampara on a chiththa veethi. By the end of that 17 it returns back to Bavanga siths.
There are two types of Veethi sith. * Panchadhwarika Veethi Sith (ayathana 5 based on) - Vinyanaya to "Danaganna" other things (This is the Vinyana part in Thinnnag Sangathi Passo) * Mano Dhwarika Veethi sith (Manasa based on)
Bavanga Sith has many properties (Gathi) - These gathi can be used and worked on different things on different ways (Ex: Battery can be used in a torch (to give light), ipod to give (sound) etc..) So Bavanga sith can be used to identify image, voice, smell, taste, sense and thoughts.
> - - - - - - - - - - - >We got the Aramuna (Arammana in Pali) - Then Bavanga Sith get disturbed and following Sith Pattern happens (This pattern is a Chiththa Veethi).
Kayadwara and Manodwara chiththa veethis work on this bavana.
This is the patter of chiththa veethi when we start on the Kaya (physical body) based Arammana (sensory spot, it could be upper lip, tip of the nose etc).
Bavanga Sitha
Bavanga Chalana Sitha
Bavanga Upachcheda Sitha
Panchadwara Avajjana Sitha
Kaya Vinyanaya (Since we look in to where breath touch) Sitha
Anapana Sathi is a Kayanu passana (or looking based on body / Mindfulness based on a point in body).
So its a journey we start from this body and goes in to our mind where we drop the body we used to bootstrap process later on.
Continuous look in to this kayadwara (Where we feel breath-in and out, in other words Arammana or Aramuna (same is called the Karmasthanaya??)) will create a some form vague sensory point (on our body, this is still Kaya) where we sense the touch of breath-in and breath-out happening. Keep continuing will make this sensory spot disappear and create a picture having the same shape of this sensory spot in mind. This new picture is Manodwarika(i). Now it happens inside (not from the kaya or from the anapana sathi). Now the above chiththa veethi that was formed with Kaya Vinyana will change to Manodwarika Chiththa Veethi like below.
Bavanga Sitha
Bavanga Chalana Sitha
Bavanga Upachcheda Sitha
Manodwara-awajjana
Javana
Javana
Javana
Javana
Javana
Javana
Javana
Thadarammana ( Aramuna sambanda weda siyalla iwarai methanadi - nawathinna kalin sera bala wena eka thamai wennea)
Thadarammana
Bavanga Sitha
Bavanga Sitha
Bavanga Sitha
Bavanga Sitha
Bavanga Sitha
When keep watching this picture in mind it becomes clear. As I understood, this look like a shift in gear from Kaya to Mind around these times (Like we are jumping between Kaya and Mind picture and eventually settles to this Mind Picture). This Mind picture now becomes very apparent and strong and the person continuing this way will be more and more capable of keeping his concentration attached to this Mind Picture, without depending on the Kaya (physical) vague sensory point where he started with.
Once you find you this Manodwarika (Mind based) image more apperent you are slowly becoming independent of the Kaya based sensory point.
When we continue to see this mind image clearly, more and more, we say we have a good grasp of bawana nimiththa. At this time we don't need our Kaya-based concentration to get in to sathi (concentration). Actually we used Kaya Arammana to bootstrap the process.
Eventually this nimiththa becomes more clear, brighter, beautiful. You get to see various lights and all beautiful this - that is this stage. When this Nimiththa comes better and clear we call that the person have improved in to Samadhi.
When Samadhi become more and more practiced the mind converts to generate Dyana Sith. We call this stage Samapaththi.
In meditation what you call as "Penenawa" - "Dhakinawa" - "Balanawa"? here is the answer. Its basically you keep thinking what your mind thinks and trying to identify that.
When some one dies, One of the following three things happen and comes to front.
Karmaya (He remembers What he did)
Karma Nimiththa (Things and tools used for the Kamma)
Gathi Nimiththa (Some form of a feeling that is going to happen in the new life)
The the dying person hangs to one of the above 3 and creates a new bava (life).
Prathisandhiya is not a place for making Karma, its a place of Karma-Vipaka (A result from a previous action). There are no Javana Siths in these.
Reson for the new bava (life) could be based on one of the following.
Thri Hethuka (3 properties -- Loba, Dvesha, Moha are less in previous lives. So such people get in to the current Bava with such powerful Moola-Chiththa. They are bright, intelligent and understands quickly)
Dvi-Hethuka (Two properties from the three of Less Loba, Dvesha, Moha in previos lives. These people are intelligent and can understand with good communication and examples)
Ahethuka (Born in pretha, animal and niraya). Some animals are skilled but that comes from practice in a previous life, but not from pragnya. People born in this Ahethuka Moola chiththa are having various illnesses, disabilities from the birth.
This is since the moola-Chiththa starts the Bavaya (this current life). The Moola-Chiththaya is the first one to start the life (bava) and will continue to run through out the life.
Another reason is the energy contains in the Bavanga siths as a result from the previous lives continues to carry on through out the life.
