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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MeGusta" data-source="post: 19231651" data-attributes="member: 419878">menna mae link eke oya maara gena kiyanwa machan.maara kiyala deity kenekuth innawa maara kiyanne apema tiyena sensual desire walatath kiyala kiyanawa.<a href="http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/guruge/wheel419.html" target="_blank">http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/guruge/wheel419.html</a>An anthropomorphic deity ruling over a heaven in the sensual sphere  (kaamaavacara-devaloka), namely, Paranimmita-Vasavatti. He is meant when  Maara is called kaamadhaa-turaaja (the king of the sensual realm). In  this position, he is as important and prestigious as Sakka and  Mahaabrahma in whose company he is often mentioned in the canonical  literature. This Maara, or Maaradevaputta, is not only a very powerful  deity but is also bent on making life difficult for holy persons.Maara can also be seen as an allegorization, with almost immediate  personification, of the power of temptation, the tendency towards evil,  moral conflict, and the influence of such factors as indolence,  negligence, and niggardliness. Similar to Satan in Judeo-Christian and  Islamic thinking and Ahriman in Avestan thought, though in no way  identical, this Maara is described as Paapimaa (i.e. the Evil One, or  simply the Evil),<a href="http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/guruge/wheel419.html#fn-8" target="_blank">[8]</a>  Pamattabandhu (Kinsman of Dalliance), Pisu.na (Calumnious or  Malicious), and Ka.nha (the Black). Grimm calls this Maara "the prince  and bestower of all worldly lust" and distinguishes him from Lucifer of  the Bible on the ground that this personification "always remains  apparent."<a href="http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/guruge/wheel419.html#fn-9" target="_blank">[9]</a>man nan oya deity enawa disturb karanna kiyana kathawa wishwasa karanne ne mchn.sensure desire realm eke king kiyala tamai maara kiyanne.e kiyanne apema mind eke state ekak tamai sensual desire kiyanne.niravana avaboda karaganna ena hema obstacle ekama maara tamai.ape hitha thamai okoma.man hamduruwatna agaurava karanawa newe mata nikan terena widiyata kivve.</blockquote>

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