Interestingly, there are 31 celestial beings described that is half of the doctrines mentioned.
What this mean is, in every celestial location, there are two groups one opposing the view and one supporting it.
This is where I prefer to have no doctrine, at all, not even one concocted by me personally for my own consumption.
Twenty is the arbitrary base I use to recognize, the biodiversity on a particular location.
This is the base 2 multiplied by log base 10, the minimum number of scientific observations, for my own roof top garden environment.
Any additional criteria do not add to the diversity of views.
The Internet will come to a standstill.
In other words mental opinions of some sort, may be illusions, may be delusions.
If I was given full authority, I would have scaled them down to four or five.
I keep the figure 20 to give a wider birth of respectable opinions and refutation.
According to this system there are at least 31 types of beings including, humans, Gods, Brahmas and Maha Brahma.
By the way, our dog who left us, is in heaven, currently acting as the Acting Maha Brahma.
All these doctrines are based on speculation of the past and or the future of the self and the world systems.
44 are based on the future rendering of lives of beings innumerable in existence.
Not only mankind but there is adequate room for existence of aliens.
No mention of lower beings, demons and devils.
1. In summary there are 4 views about eternalism of the self and of the world.
These are based on remembering past lives.
2. Then there are 4 views about partial eternity.
Maha Brahma and other Brahmas reside in these worlds outside our system and are the owners of this philosophy.
3. Then there are 4 views about finite and infinity of the world systems.
I think rationalists of some kind fit in here, not Ceylonese rationalists.
4. Then there are 4 doctrines of endless equivocation.
That is only 16 so far.
5. There are 2 views about fortuitous origination.
These are the beings without body but mind only.
The absence of body makes them to proclaim these two doctrines.
6. Then there are 16 grounds for percipient existence of immortality making the total 34.
7. Then there are 8 grounds to non-percipient immortality of existence making the total 42.
8. Then there are 8 neither percipient or non-percipient entities making a total of 50.
9. Then there are 8 doctrines of annihilationism.
This is the denial of all other doctrines.
10. The doctrine of Nibbana here and now are the last 5 of the doctrines, making the total 62.
These 5 are the Meditative experience of the goal Nibbhana.
1. Nibbhana with sensual spheres.
2. Contemplation in first Jhana.
3. Contemplation in the second Jhana.
4. Contemplation in the third Jhana.
5.Contemplation in the fourth Jhana.
There is no mention about the fifth Jhana.
Having gone through this list of 62, I have decided to remain here and now as a simple being, trying to avoid any insult by Coronavirus.
None of the above Gods or Brahmas are going to help me, except perhaps a mask and regular hand washing.
I was one who was obsessed with washing hands but for over 45 years, I could not achieve that goal in this world, including the West.
I have refereed an article in 2009, where British women were classified as the dirtiest of all.
Now I have substituted this protocol with a single glove in one hand with one in my front shirt pocket.
I now avoid politician's method of distance worship with both hands in air (greetings from a distance to the voter), by default fearing contamination of my glove from my non glove wearing hand.
What an evolution of habit in my life time.
The immune antidote is yet to be discovered and all energies in the world are towards that goal and the entire economy of the world is going to shrink and collapse.
I want China to collapse first paying the way for democratic means for the masses.
I think the Coranavirus might just as well do that in China, a drastic change to the regimental administration.
The correct term is modern slavery.