the three different existences or conditions through which all must pass before attaining Nirvāna, viz. the Kāma, the R&umacr
pa and the Ar&umacr
pa states. The first is a state subject to passions, and includes both human and celestial beings or gods so-called
the second is a state in which the passions have been exterminated by asceticism and only a spiritual body remains, which state exists in the ten Brahma worlds
in the third or Ar&umacr
pa state there remains only the pure invisible spirit. This state immediately precedes Nirvāna or the complete extinction which Buddhism teaches.
유의어
in the third or Ar&umacr
සං·යුත්·නිකාය (the third of the five books or Sangis of the S&umacr)