Welcome back to the Sutta Meditation Series Podcast.
Another session to answer a question on DETAILS OF THE HEAVENLY REALMS, in regards to the Buddha's Gradual Instructions to Lay People on the HEAVENLY REALMS (saggakathaṁ). This session is specifically on the HEAVENLY REALMS OF FORM (rūpa-loka), with other sessions to follow to describe the others.  
We explore some of the key aspects about these realms, their lifespan, notable inhabitants, and some of the distinguishing features of these realms from the suttas.  
Understanding more about these heavenly realms may help us to recognise where we might have developed or are developing wrong views that may leads us to be reborn in one of these places, and we also get a glimpse of how the Buddha teaches divine beings in these realms to come out of the wrong view with the right view.
Some of the suttas that are mentioned directly or indirectly in this session: 

— Brahmadeva Sutta (AN 6.3)  
— Samacittavagga (AN 2.36) 
— Tissa Sutta (AN 7.56)  
— Aññatarabrahma Sutta (SN 6.5) 
— Aruṇavatī Sutta (AN 6.13) 
— Brahmanimantanika Sutta (MN 49) 
— Brahmāyu Sutta (MN 91) 
— Gilāna Sutta (SN 55.54) 
— Sattasūriya Sutta (AN 7.66) 
— Sattāvāsa Sutta (AN 9.24) 
— Sangiti Sutta (DN 33) 
— Bhaddaji Sutta (AN 5.170) 
— Sattaviññāṇaṭṭhiti Sutta (AN 7.44) 
— Mahāsamaya Sutta (DN 20) 
— Piṇḍa Sutta (SN 4.18) 
— Paṭhamakosala Sutta (AN 10.29) 
— Paṭhamanānākaraṇa Sutta (AN 4.123) 
— Brahmajala Sutta (DN 1) 
— Baka-Brahma Jātaka (Ja 405) 
— Cūḷasakuludāyi Sutta (MN 79) 
— Saṅkhāra Sutta (AN 3.23)  
— Janavasabha Sutta (DN 18)  

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