dn28:16.0 1.13. Recollecting Past Lives
BAGIAN 16
dn28:16.1 And moreover, sir, how the Buddha teaches the knowledge of recollecting past lives is unsurpassable.
dn28:16.2 It’s when some ascetic or brahmin—by dint of keen, resolute, committed, and diligent effort, and right application of mind—experiences an immersion of the heart of such a kind that they recollect their many kinds of past lives.
dn28:16.3 That is: one, two, three, four, five, ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, a hundred, a thousand, a hundred thousand rebirths; many eons of the world contracting, many eons of the world expanding, many eons of the world contracting and expanding. They remember:
dn28:16.4 ‘There, I was named this, my clan was that, I looked like this, and that was my food. This was how I felt pleasure and pain, and that was how my life ended. When I passed away from that place I was reborn somewhere else. There, too, I was named this, my clan was that, I looked like this, and that was my food. This was how I felt pleasure and pain, and that was how my life ended. When I passed away from that place I was reborn here.’ And so they recollect their many kinds of past lives, with features and details.
dn28:16.5 Sir, there are gods whose lifespan cannot be reckoned or calculated.
dn28:16.6 Still, no matter what incarnation they have previously been reborn in—whether formed or formless or percipient or non-percipient or neither percipient nor non-percipient—
dn28:16.7 they recollect their many kinds of past lives, with features and details.
dn28:16.8 This is unsurpassable when it comes to the knowledge of recollecting past lives.