| Бхиккху Бодхи |
Although this Brahma had acquired the knowledge of the ownership of kamma in previous births, due to the instability of a worldling's view's he discarded it. Induced by his (supposed) creation of beings through a mere act of consciousness exercising the psychic power of transformation, he deceived himself, and leaping upon the 1 doctrine of the creative play of God (issarakuttadassana), thinking “I am the Lord, the Maker and Creator,” he became established in it as his conviction. But this statement does not yet serve to establish others (in this view), since it is said: “(He) thinks to himself. ” In order to show that this conviction was formulated also as a means of establishing others in his view, it is said ‘‘after claiming” and "desiring to substantiate this with a reason.” |