[322] Furthermore, bhikkhus, a bhikkhu is endowed with faith (saddhā), endowed with virtue (sīla), endowed with learning (suta), endowed with generosity (cāga), and endowed with wisdom (paññā). He has heard: "The Brahmā of a Thousand (Sahassa Brahmā) is long-lived, beautiful, and abounding in happiness." Bhikkhus, the Brahmā of a Thousand dwells pervading and resolving upon a thousandfold world-system (sahassī-lokadhātu); and those beings who have arisen there — them too he dwells pervading and resolving upon. Just as, bhikkhus, a man with good eyes, having placed a single gallnut (āmaṇḍa) in his hand, might examine it, even so, bhikkhus, the Brahmā of a Thousand dwells pervading and resolving upon a thousandfold world-system; and those beings who have arisen there — them too he dwells pervading and resolving upon. It occurs to him thus: "Oh, that with the breakup of the body, after death, I might be reborn in companionship with the Brahmā of a Thousand!" He sets that mind (citta), he resolves that mind, he develops that mind. Those volitional formations (saṅkhārā) and those abidings (vihārā) of his, thus developed, thus made much of, lead to rebirth there. This, bhikkhus, is the path (magga), this is the way of practice, that leads to rebirth there.
[Footnote 1: Other editions (Po., M., Yu.) read *upapannā* for *uppannā* ("arisen/reborn there").]
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.