解脫心 A Heart Released 十三、只有淨居天是真正安寧的天人

§13. Only a visuddhi deva is an individual truly at peace.

　　十三、只有淨居天是真正安寧的天人

akuppam sabba-dhammesu neyyadhamma pavessanto:

　　『一切法不動，有為法入于寂靜。』

’One must have a mind unaroused with regard to any defilements and must know all phenomena both within and without,

　　『為了寧靜安詳，一個人必須要有一顆不被任何煩惱所激盪的心，同時必須知道內在和外在的所有現象。』

— santo

in order to be calm and at peace.’ A person at peace in this way will have a fully developed sense of conscience and shame, mental qualities that are pure and clean, a firm, steady mind, and a personal integrity endowed with the qualities of a deva (celestial being), as stated in the stanza that runs,

　　一個如是安寧的人，將有著完全開發的良知和羞恥心，純潔和清淨的心智德性，堅固穩定的心意，秉賦具有天人(空居天)正直的特質，就像詩偈所言，

hiri-ottappa-sampanna sukkadhamma-samahita santo sappurisa loke deva-dhammati vuccare.

　　『淨居天法，具足慚愧，白法三昧定，世間寂靜安詳之善士。』

Devas by birth — the inhabitants of the celestial realms — are replete with sensual pleasures and restless with defilement. How then can they be at peace? This stanza thus must surely refer to visuddhi devas (devas through purity), i.e., to arahants. Such people are genuinely at peace and qualify as having a fully developed sense of conscience and shame, together with ‘white qualities,’ i.e., true purity.

　　天人─空居天界的居住者─生而充滿著感官的樂趣和無休止的煩惱，他們如何能夠安寧？因此這段詩偈必定是指淨居天)，也就是阿羅漢，這些人才是真正的安寧，記說為具有完全開發的良知和慚愧心，伴隨著『白色的德性』，也就是真正的純淨。

【中譯注】

　有五淨居天(亦稱五那含天，五不還天)：

　一、無煩天。

　二、無熱天。

　三、善現天。

　四、善見天。

　五、色究竟天。

　必須在人間、天上證得阿那含果的聖者才能生往五淨居天　(不再還生人間)，而在淨居天上進修阿羅漢道，乃至證得阿羅漢果。因此淨居天是阿羅漢的最後生處之一；在人間、淨居天都有阿羅漢存在，也都有阿羅漢入無余涅槃，並不是說阿羅漢涅槃之後生到淨居天上去。