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จักรพรรดิในกลางดวงบุญ ต่างจากพระเจ้าจักรพรรดิอย่างไร?How Does the Wheel-Turning Treasure Within the Sphere of Merit Differ From a Wheel-Turning Monarch?
พระอาจารย์อธิบายว่าจักรพรรดิในกลางดวงบุญเป็นของละเอียดที่มีอยู่ในทุกคนทุกภพภูมิ ทำหน้าที่บริหารทรัพยากรผ่านรัตนะ 7 ส่วนพระเจ้าจักรพรรดิเป็นผู้มีบุญที่บังเกิดเป็นพระราชาแล้วบุญส่งผลจนได้จักรแก้วและสมบัติจักรพรรดิที่มีตัวตนในโลกหยาบPra Ajarn explains that the wheel-turning treasure within the sphere of merit is a refined thing present in everyone across all realms, managing resources through the seven treasures; whereas a wheel-turning monarch is a person of merit born as a king whose merit ripens to yield the wheel-jewel and the wheel-turning treasures, with a coarse-world existence.
Someone asked: is the wheel-turning treasure within the sphere of a different thing from a wheel-turning monarch?
The Wheel-Turning Treasure Within the Sphere of Merit: A Refined Thing Present in Everyone
They are different. The wheel-turning treasure within the sphere of merit is present in everyone — of any nationality or religion; humans, devas, brahmas, formless brahmas, the , and all have it. It's called 'wheel-turning' because it has a retinue of : the jewel-elephant, jewel-horse, jewel-general, jewel-treasurer, wheel-jewel, jewel-queen, and jewel-orb. It manages our resources — both the refined ones within the sphere of merit, which hold the pure Dhamma-element for clearing im and refined treasures for drawing the coarse treasures of the world into our life — all according to the blueprint set.
A Wheel-Turning Monarch: A Person of Merit Born as a King
A wheel-turning monarch, by contrast, is a person of merit who can attain the status of a wheel-turning monarch. Normally they are an ordinary king; but when the time comes for the blueprint to ripen, from an ordinary king their merit yields the status of a wheel-turning monarch. The wheel-jewel appears in the east, and people see it as though two suns had risen at once, but the wise say it is the wheel-jewel — the treasure paired with the king's merit. The ministers hurry to the palace and invite the king to observe the Uposatha precepts to receive the wheel-turning treasure. The king enters the Uposatha hall, reflects on the purity of his own morality, and the stream of merit flows through, bringing purification and . When the merit is complete, the wheel-jewel floating in the sky floats into the palace and settles there, and the wheel-turning monarch's treasures arise through the powers of the seven treasures. A wheel-turning monarch thus has a coarse-world existence, while the wheel-turning treasure within the sphere of merit is a refined thing.