Paticca-samuppada (Dependent Origination) Anuloma (Forward order)

Avijja-paccaya sankhara;

Conditioned by ignorance (avijja), volitional activities (Sankhara) arise. 

sankhara-paccaya vinnanam; 

Conditioned by volitional activities (Sankhara), re-linking consciousness (vinnanam) arises. 

vinnana-paccaya nama-rupam; 

Conditioned by re-linking consciousness (vinnana), mind and matter (nama-rupam) arise. 

nama-rupa-paccaya salayatanam; 

Conditioned by mind and matter (nama-rupa), the six-fold sense base (salayatanam) arises. 

salayatana-paccaya phasso; 

Conditioned by the six-fold sense base (salayatana), contact (phasso) arises. 

phassa-paccaya vedana; 

Conditioned by contact (phassa), feeling (vedana) arises. 

vedana-paccaya tanha; 

Conditioned by feeling (vedana), craving (tanha) arises. 

tanha-paccaya upadanam; 

Conditioned by craving (tanha), grasping (upadanam) arises. 

upadana-paccaya bhavo; 

Conditioned by grasping (upadana), becoming (bhavo) arises. 

bhava-paccaya jati; 

Conditioned by becoming (bhava), birth (jati) arises. 

jati-paccaya jara-maranam 

Conditioned by birth (jati), ageing, death (jara-maranam), 

soka-parideva-dukkha-domanassupayasa sambhavanti;

Sorrow (soka), lamentation (parideva), pain (dukkha), grief and despair (domanassupayasa) arise;

evametassa kevalassa dukkhakkhandhassa samudayo hoti.

Thus does this entire aggregation arise.

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