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The family of Siddhartha (Buddha)
Sunakkhatta - Rahula’s(Ref) other half-brother who has fallen into infinite hell
Sunakkhatta (Skt. Sunaksatra) is a former disciple of Buddha. He is also said to be another illegitimate son of Buddha when he was Crown Prince Siddhartha. He is said to have been a son of the third consort (concubine:Ref1).
Despite having attained the four stages of Dhyana (meditation in the coloured world, away from the world of greed) he assumed that this was the highest state of being and was so conceited that he denied the state of nirvana. He is also said to have fallen into Avīci (Sanskrit and Pali for "without waves" that implies infinite hell), because he disobeyed the Buddha. His biography differs between the southern and northern biographies, but it is agreed that he was a renunciate who defied the Buddha.
In Buddhism, “the world of desire” is the world in which instinctive desires such as appetite, lust and sleep thrive.
“The coloured world” is a world where there is no greed or vexation as in the world of greed, but where one has not broken free from the bondage of matter and the body as in the colourless world. It is the heavenly realm in which those who have practiced the four stages of Dhyana, from the first to the fourth, which are further divided into seventeen.
“The colourless world” is the world above the coloured world, which is detached from the physical body and matter, and consists only of the four universes of perception, thought, action and insight, which are the workings of the mind.
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善星 (ぜんしょう、巴: スナッカッタ)〜無限地獄に堕ちた、ラーフラ(参照)のもう一人の異母兄
善星(ぜんしょう、巴:スナッカッタ)は、かつてブッダの弟子だった人。またブッダがシッダールタ太子の時の庶子ともいわれている。第三妃(妾妃)、鹿野 (多説あり詳細不明、参照1)との間の子とも伝えられる。四禅定(しぜんじょう: 欲界を離れた色界での瞑想・ディヤーナの四種の修行過程)を得たが、それを最高の境涯と思い込み自惚れ、涅槃(ねはん)の境涯を否定した。また仏に違背したので阿鼻地獄 (あびじごく: サンスクリット語とパーリ語で「波のない」無間地獄を意味する)に堕したといわれる。彼の伝記は南伝と北伝とでは差異があるが、ブッダに違背した退転者とするのは一致している。
仏教における「欲界(よっかい)」とは、食欲・淫欲・睡眠欲など本能的な欲望が盛んな世界を指す。
「色界(しきかい)」とは、欲界(よっかい)のように欲や煩悩(ぼんのう)はないが、無色界(むしきかい)ほど物質や肉体の束縛から脱却していない世界。四禅(しぜん)を修めた者の生まれる天界で、初禅天から第四禅天の四禅天よりなり、さらに一七天に分ける。
「無色界(むしきかい)」とは、色界の上にあり、肉体・物質から離脱して、心の働きである受・想・行・識の四蘊(しうん)だけからなる世界。












