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➥ cetasika: Mental concomitant (see vedanā, saññā, and saṅkhāra).

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➥ cetasika:¹⁾ 'mental things, mental factors', are those mental concomitants which are bound up with the simultaneously arising consciousness (citta = viññāṇa) and conditioned by its presence. Whereas in the Suttas all phenomena of existence are summed up under the aspect of 5 groups: corporeality, feeling, perception, mental formations, consciousness (see khandha), the Abhidhamma as a rule treats them under the more philosophical 3 aspects: consciousness, mental factors and corporeality (citta, cetasika, rūpa).

Thus, of these 3 aspects, the mental factors (cetasika) comprise feeling, perception and the 50 mental formations, altogether 52 mental concomitants. Of these, 25 are lofty qualities (either kammically wholesome or neutral), 14 kammically unwholesome, while 13 are as such kammically neutral, their kammical quality depending on whether they are associated with wholesome, unwholesome or neutral consciousness. For details see Table II, Table III. Cf. precedent, cetanā.

Table III - The Combination

The Combination of the Formations Aggregate (saṅkhāra-kkhandha, Table II) and Consciousness Aggregate (viññāna-kkhandha, Table I).

karmic wholesome (kusala)

Associated with consciousness:

No. 1 and 2: 11 general and 25 profitable = 36 Formations
No. 3 and 4: above 36 - non-delusion = 35 Formations
No. 5 and 6: above 36 - happiness = 35 Formations
No. 7 and 8: above 36 - happiness - non-delusion = 34 Formations
No. 9: above 36 - 3 abstinences = 33 Formations
No. 10: last 33 - applied thought = 32 Formations
No. 11: last 32 - sustained thought = 31 Formations
No. 12: last 32 - happiness = 30 Formations
No. 13: last 30 - 2 immeasurable = 28 Formations
No. 14 to 17: last 28 Formations
No. 18 to 21 = No. 9 to 13, with - 2 immeasurable , and the 3 abstinences are constant

karmic unwholesome (akusala)

with greed:

No. 22: 11 general + 4 primary unwholesome + greed + wrong view = 17 Formations
No. 23: above 17 + stiffness + torpor = 19 Formations
No. 24: No. 22, with conceit without wrong view = 19 Formations
No. 25: No. 23, with conceit without wrong view = 19 Formations
No. 26: above 17 - happiness = 16 Formations
No. 27: above 17 - happiness + stiffness + torpor = 18 Formations
No. 28: above 17 - happiness - wrong view + conceit = 16 Formations
No. 29: above 17 - happiness + stiffness + torpor = 18 Formations

with hate:

No. 30: 10 general (without happiness) + 4 primary unwholesome + 4 hateful = 18 Formations
No. 31: last 18 + stiffness + torpor = 20 Formations

with delusion:

No. 32: 8 general (without happiness, determined, resolution) + 4 primary unwholesome + uncertainty = 13 Formations
No. 33: last 13, with determined without uncertainty = 13 Formations

karmic neutral (avyākata)

(a) karma result (vipāka)

No. 34 to 38 und
No. 50 to 54: 5 primary general (concentration week)
No. 39 to 55 und
No. 41 to 56: last 5 + applied thought + sustained thought + determined = 8 Formations
No. 40: 9 general (without energy and resolution)
No. 42 to 49 = No.1 to 8, with - 2 immeasurable - 3 abstinences
No. 57 to 69 = No. 9 to 21

(b) functional (kiriya)

No. 70 = No. 39
No. 71 a. 72 = No. 39 + energy, 9 general (without happiness and resolution)
No. 73 to 80 = No. 1 to 8, with - 3 abstinences
No. 81 to 89 = No. 9 to 17

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Appendix: This term oceurs often in the old Sutta texts, but only as adj. (e.g. cetasikaṁ sukhaṁ, etc.) or, at times, used as a sing. neut. noun (e.g. DN 1; p. 213, PTS). As a designation for mental factors, or concomitants of consciousness (citta-saṁpayuttā dhammā), it is frequently met with in Dhammasaṅgaṇi (§ 1189, 1512) as cetasika-dhamma, while in Visuddhi Magga, Abhidhammatthasaṅgaha, etc., cetasika is used also as a neuter noun, in the sense of mental phenomenon.

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