The Law of Karma in the Dhammapada
Commentary: The Story of Mrs. Patipujika prayed until he was born in the heaven
of Tāvatiṃsa
The Law of Karma to be presented here was
in the Dhammapada Commentary scripture of Venerable Buddha Kosā Cāriya.
The story was about the time when the Lord
Buddha lived in the city of Savatthi . The Lord Buddha, in dealing with Mrs Patipūjikā,
had spoken the Dhammapada which had the beginning of the words Pubbhāni heva.
Mrs Patipūjikā (meaning the woman who
worshiped the husband) was in the city of Sāvatthi. She married at the age of 16 years and had 4 children.
She was a virtuous, and philanthropist
woman. She liked offering food and other factors to the monks.
She went to the temple and helped
clean the temple area, filled the water into the blister, and served many other
things to the monks.
She had a special talent that was born
with herself. She could remember that in the past she was a goddess; she was a
wife of Mālābhāri, an angel in the heaven of Tāvatiṃsa.
She remembered that she came down from
the heaven when all goddesses, who were the servants of Mālābhāri, visited the
garden for entertainment, and for having fun with picking up of twigs and
flowers.
One day, Mrs. Patipūjikā was sick and
died on that same evening. Because she had established a desire to be born in
the heaven. The Law of Karma therefore sent her to be born in the heaven of
Tavatimsa and to be wife of Mālābhāri,.
But because the time dimension of the
two worlds is different, that is, one hundred years in the human world was equal
to one day of the celestial heavenly world. Therefore Malabhari and other
goddesses were still having fun in the same garden. Mrs. Patipūjikā who had
been born as a human for a long time according to the time of the human world, and
therefore disappeared from the garden only for a moment.
This is because the 100 years
of the human world equals one day, one night of the heavenly star. In the
heaven of heaven, one month has 30 days and one year,
there are 12 months like in the human world. But the life
expectancy of the heavenly angel is equal to 100 years. when
calculated, the life expectancy of these angels is as long as 3 million
years of the human world.
Mālābhāri, an angel, asked her that where
has she been since this morning? She told Malabheri that she was born from a
heavenly star in the human world. She married a man and gave birth to 4
children and died from the human world back to the heaven.
When all the monks heard the news of
the death of Mrs. Patipūjikā, they mourned for her goodness. As some monk were ordinary monks, they even shed tears , went to
see Lord Buddha and said that Mrs. Patipūjikā, who had been offering food to them
in the morning, died on this evening.
Lord Buddha said that Mrs Patipūjikā was
born with her husband in the heaven as she desired and he also said as follows:
Life of all animals was too short (compared
to the life of animals in the heavenly world). They were not full of their
erotic objects and erotic desires and would fall into the power of the death. They
were pulled away despite lamenting how he could not escape. But for those who
are not obsessed with erotic passion and erotic object would not fall into the
power of the death and they could escape from the cycle of rebirth.
After that, the Lord Buddha spoke in the
48th Dhammapada showing of the Law of Karma.
Pubbhāni heva pacinantaṃ
Byāsattamanasaṃ nanaṃ
Atittamyeva kāmesu
Antako kuruse vasaṃ.
The man who gathers flowers (of
sensual pleasure), whose mind is distracted, and who is insatiate in desires,
the Destroyer brings under his sway.
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