{"collection":"Khuddaka Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_iti21/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_iti21","id":"suttacentral_iti21","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/iti21/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Khuddaka Nikaya"],"text":"This was said by the Buddha, the Perfected One: that is what I heard. \u201cMendicants, when I\u2019ve comprehended the mind of an individual whose mind is pure, I understand: \u2018If this individual were to die right now, they would be placed in heaven as if delivered there.\u2019 Why is that? Because their mind is pure. Purity of mind is the reason why some sentient beings, when their body breaks up, after death, are reborn in a good place, a heavenly realm.\u201d The Buddha spoke this matter. On this it is said: \u201cKnowing an individual\u2019s pure mind, the Buddha explained this matter in the mendicants\u2019 presence. If that individual were to die at this time, they\u2019d be reborn in heaven, for their mind is pure. That sort is raised up as surely as if they\u2019d been carried and put there. For purity of mind is the reason sentient beings go to a good place.\u201d This too is a matter that was spoken by the Blessed One: that is what I heard.","title":"A Pure Mind","tradition":"Khuddaka Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":170}