Hello everyone,
I’m confused about the Maha Brahma realm. Is there only one brahma in the Maha Brahma realm? If someone wants to become a Maha Brahma who is worshipped as the almighty creator, he would only be able to become one at the beginning of the world?
What is the point of being reborn in the Maha Brahma realm if one can just be reborn in higher realms which are more happier?
I think this book will help. Skip the unorthodox (Mahayana) parts.
There are infinite cakkavāḷas (world-systems), so it shouldn’t be a problem, though that is merely my view.
You could ask this question for every realm out there.
Truthfully, there is no intrinsic point to anything. All meanings (or points, as you said) are fabricated—mental constructs, but the reality is, there is no greater point or striving than for Nibbāna.
Yeah, abandoning desire for even the good realms is true happiness and freedom.
I want to become a Buddha. So, I should just see these good realms as temporary resting places on my journey.
Yeah, I think so too.
Best of luck with it. To be a Buddha, one must have a high level of compassion.
My compassion is not as strong as yours, so I don’t want to stay in Saṃsāra for longer than necessary.
Do you think the happiness of jhana and the happiness in the brahma world are exactly the same? So, if someone attains the first jhana, for example, is he already experiencing the happiness of the brahma world as a human?
If someone attains the first jhana as a human and get reborn in the brahma world, does he needs to practice meditation again to reattain jhana in the brahma world? If he naturally has jhana from the moment he is born into the brahma world, I feel that he should be able to enter jhana at the moment of death in that brahma world to always be reborn in that same brahma world over and over again. So, I think if someone attains jhana and get reborn in the brahma world, they will naturally experience piti and sukha all the time, but if they want to attain jhanas, they would have to practice meditation again.
Same? No.
Similar? Yes.
That would be interesting, only that the last moment doesn’t always decide everything.
Their nutriment is meditation. It sustains them. By it, they live.
Isn’t their nutriment piti or sukha?
Pīṭi or sukhā born out of jhāṅa.
I wonder how the fourth jhana realm is happier than the realms below if there is no piti or sukha.
I think if someone attains jhana as a monk and knows about the happiness of the brahma realms, it would be easy to remain as a monk for their entire life because at the very least they can be reborn in the brahma world.
Do you think the brahma realms as well as the deva realms are as wide as the Earth or even wider?
Devās can be quite large, but since some types of devās can transform to a smaller size, it really depends on their preference and circumstance.
The higher realms are likely wider than the earth, but those areas are not necessarily habitable, so I think just like how more people live at the capital city of a country (generally), devās also are more concentrated at the capital city of their realm.
Lastly, more information can be found in the book I provided, so you can just read the book to find out more. I highly recommend it for such matters (remember to skip anything Mahayana).