Dear friends,

I have discovered I made a couple of mistakes in my recent posts on
the discussion of Brahma. Here are the corrections:

1. Maha Brahma lives in one of the jhana planes.

2. It was Brahma Sahampati who begs the Buddha to teach the Dhamma to
the world, not Maha Brahma.

Please see the following for more information:
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/dhamma/sagga/loka.html



metta,
Yong Peng.

--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, Ong Yong Peng wrote:

The cute part about these beings is they are not born of the womb.
Brahma is the oldest around in one of the plane. Because he does not
have a mother, he thought he was self-created. And he thought he has
created the lower planes (which he can observe from his own). What he
never thought is that he is also in one of the planes of existence,
Samsara, and there are planes higher than the one he lives, which he
just can't see. The next higher planes are the Jhana :-) planes.