五果

The five fruits, or effects; there are various groups, e. g.

I.

(1) 異熟果 fruit ripening divergently, e. g. pleasure and goodness are in different categories; present organs accord in pain or pleasure with their past good or evil deeds;

(2) 等流果 fruit of the same order, e. g. goodness reborn from previous goodness;

(3) 土用果 present position and function fruit, the rewards of moral merit in previous lives;

(4) 增上果 superior fruit, or position arising from previous earnest endeavor and superior capacity:

(5) 離繋果 fruit of freedom from all bonds, nirvana fruit.

II.

Fruit, or rebirth:

(1) 識 conception (viewed psychologically);

(2) 名色 formation mental and physical;

(3) 六處 the six organs of perception complete;

(4) 觸 their birth and contact with the world;

(5) 受 consciousness.

III.

Five orders of fruit, with stones, pips, shells (as nuts), chaff-like (as pine seeds), and with pods.