Glossary (English translations of Pali terms)
kalapa: corporeal groups, (see Dr Mon pp. 242, 243, 248, 250, 371, 400).
Utuja-kalapas: 245, 246, 247.
aharaja-kalapas: 245, 247.
There are twenty-one types of kalapas:
9 kammaja kalapas
6 cittaja kalapas
4 utuja kalapas
2 aharaja kalapas
In our previous Abhidhamma classes, we studied kammaja kalapas and cittaja kalapas. Today we will study utuja kalapas and aharaja kalapas.
The four utuja-kalapas are formed by grouping the 12 utuja-rupas (excluding pariccheda-rupa) together as may be required.
1. utuja-suddha??haka (pre octad) = 8 avinibbhoga-rupas produced by utu
2. sadda-navaka (sound-nomad) = 8 avinibbhoga-rupas + saddha
3. lahutadi-ekadasaka (un-decad of mutability) = 8 avinibbhogas + 3 lahutadi-rupas
4. sadda-lahutadi-dvadasaka (do-decad of sound and mutability) = 8 avinibbhogas + saddha +3 lahutadi-rupas
Now in the external world, only two utaja-kalapas are found. All inanimate things such as trees, stones, earth, air, water, fire, corpses, etc, are made up of utuja-suddhatthaka kalapas. The sounds produced by beating two sticks together or by rubbing of branches in the wind or by musical instruments such as violin, piano, cassettes, etc., are utuja-sadda-navaka kalapas (Mon, 1995, p. 246).
The two aharaja-kalapas are formed by grouping together the 8 avinibbhoga-rupas and the 3 lahutadi-rupa produced by ahara.
The two aharaja-kalapas are :
1. aharaja-suddha??haka (pure octad) = 8 avinibbhoga-rupas
2. lahutadi-ekadasaka (un-dedad of mutability) = 9 avinibbhoga-rupas + 3 lahutadi-rupas
All the 21 rupa-kalapas occur internally in living beings. Itthibhava-dasaka does not occur in males. Similarly pumbhava-dasaka does not occur in females. For those who are born blind or deaf, cakkhu-dasaka or sota-dasaka should be eliminated.
(Note that of the 28 types of rupa, itthibhava-rupa is absent in males andpurisabhava-rupa is absent in females. So only 27 types of rupa will be present in each species).
Dr. Mehm Tin Mon writes (1995: pp. 250, 251): All material phenomena described in this chapter can be observed and verified by an interested person who will undertake tranquility and insight meditations strenuously. Although rupa kalapas are invisible under powerful microscopes, they can be observed by samadhi-eye which is the mind-eye accompanied by access-concentration or better by jhana-concentration.
One shall observe with samadhi-eye that there are six types of kalapas in the eye - namely, the eye-decad, the body-decad, the sex-decad and three pure octads produced by citta, utu and ahara, respectively.
In the same way one shall observe six types of kalapas each in the ear, the nose, and the tongue - just substitute the eye-decad with the ear-decad, the nose-decad, the tongue-decad, respectively, in enumerating these kalapas.
Note that kaya-pasada, bhava-rupa, cittaja-rupa, utuja-rupa and aharaja-rupa spred all over the body, and so they will be present in the eye, the ear, the nose, the tongue and in every part of the body.
Observing kalapas does not mean that one sees the ultimate rupa. If the rupas are observed in the form of particles, however small they may be, the rupas observed are not ultimate yet. The ultimate rupa is formless and massless. So one has to analyse each type of kalapa to observe its contents just as one does a qualitative analysis of a brass sample to know its contents.
Bibliography
Dr. Mehm Tin Mon, 1995, "The Essence of Buddha Abhidhamma", publisher Mehm Tay Zar Mon, Yangon.
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