Pathfinder wrote: “Let’s say we can be born a brahma and live as a brahma permanently (no rebirth), would you still say that this is anicca?”
- But impermanence is a part of anicca nature.
- Any existence in this world (including a Brahma) is a sankhata, and every sankhata has a finite lifetime. At a deeper level, any existence arises via kammic energy generated in the mind. That cannot give rise to a permanent entity because it was created by a finite energy. When that energy runs out, any existence comes to an end.
- So, Yash’s particular statement you quoted is not entirely correct. We cannot even assume a sankhata to be permanent.
