Chapter 15. Happiness
Verse 4
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Happy indeed we live, we for whom there are no possessions (kiñcana-s). Feeders on rapture shall we be, like the gods of Brilliant Light.10
Footnotes
10. The gods of Brilliant Light (abhassarā-deva-s) in Buddhist mythology are a class of gods occupying in the celestial hierarchy a place immediately above the various Brahmās. Their subjective or ‘psychological’ counterpart is the second jhāna or ‘absorption’.