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skandha
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skandha

 Pali khandha

In Buddhism, any of the five elements that constitute an individual's mental and physical existence. They are rupa (physical matter), vedana (feeling), samjna (perception; Pali sanna), samskara (mental formations; Pali sankhara), and vijnana (consciousness; Pali vinnana). The four mental aggregates are perceived to be the personality or ego but are in fact only processes in a state of continuous change, subject to the effects of karma. At death the mental skandhas dissociate from the rupa and find a new physical base, resulting in a new birth.
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This is the way for one who wants to go towards Nibbana; for he must give up and finish with Sensual-Becoming, Form-Becoming, and Formless-Becoming, All these becomings are within the five aggregates, so that one who lets go of the aggregates, finishes with all becoming, For one who still cannot let go of the aggregates, the process of becoming in accordance with his kamma, keeps him within the aggregates.
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