{"id":178,"date":"2012-02-25T03:58:24","date_gmt":"2012-02-25T02:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prajnaquest.fr\/blog\/?p=178"},"modified":"2012-02-25T18:39:06","modified_gmt":"2012-02-25T17:39:06","slug":"further-on-the-modes-of-birth-in-kalacakra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/prajnaquest.fr\/blog\/further-on-the-modes-of-birth-in-kalacakra\/","title":{"rendered":"Further on the Modes of Birth in K\u0101lacakra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is really good to have the material brought in by Ingmar in \u201cMore Modes of Birth (1)\u201d from the <em>Vimalaprabh\u0101<\/em> K\u0101lacakra commentary. This is a very important source for Book of Dzyan research. It is probably the only source that gives the correspondences of the four modes of birth with the five elements. The material nicely given from <em>Vimalaprabh\u0101<\/em> 2.34 in Ingmar\u2019s tables agrees with what was given in <em>Vimalaprabh\u0101<\/em> 1.4. At 1.4 the correspondences are given a little more fully. Besides the egg-born from the element \u201cair,\u201d the womb-born from the element \u201cfire,\u201d and the sweat-born from the element \u201cwater,\u201d it says that the upap\u0101duka, here trees, etc. (the \u201cstationary\u201d of 2.34), are from the element \u201cearth.\u201d It then adds another kind of upap\u0101duka, the great upap\u0101duka (mahopap\u0101duka), from the element \u0101k\u0101\u015ba, \u201cspace\u201d (here called rasa, \u201ctaste\u201d). It does not say what these great upap\u0101duka or self-produced beings are, but at 2.34 they are described as having the form of taste (rasa-r\u016bpa), a term used here in K\u0101lacakra for \u0101k\u0101\u015ba. The <em>Vimalaprabh\u0101<\/em> does briefly define upap\u0101duka later, at 4.51, as instantaneous arising (yo jha\u1e6dita\u1e25 sa upap\u0101dukotp\u0101da\u1e25).<\/p>\n<p>For readers who would like access to the romanized Sanskrit of the <em>Vimalaprabh\u0101<\/em> passage at 1.4, along with an English translation, it can be found in \u201cNew Light on the Book of Dzyan,\u201d in <em>Symposium on H. P. Blavatsky\u2019s Secret Doctrine: Proceedings<\/em> (San Diego: Wizards Bookshelf, 1984), pp. 54-67; reprinted in <em>Blavatsky\u2019s Secret Books<\/em> (1999), pp. 25-41. At the time that was written, I did not know about the further reference in 2.34 (nor, for that matter, did I remember it now until Ingmar brought it in).<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, the <em>Vimalaprabh\u0101<\/em> at 1.4 gives the four modes of birth as tiryag-yoni\u015b caturdh\u0101, that is, as of animals. Similarly, at 2.34, it says bh\u016bta-yoni (where the word had to fit the meter in the verse), the modes of birth of creatures or living beings, and gives examples only of insects, etc. There is no indication here in K\u0101lacakra that these modes of birth would also apply to humans. It is only in the Buddhist Abhidharma that the four modes of birth are specifically said to also apply to humans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is really good to have the material brought in by Ingmar in \u201cMore Modes of Birth (1)\u201d from the Vimalaprabh\u0101 K\u0101lacakra commentary. This is a very important source for Book of Dzyan research. It is probably the only source that gives the correspondences of the four modes of birth with the five elements. 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