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ecomes one, and so on. (■ •.) The unbeliever would say, "Well, Senor, there is a spell
called Gandharva. \ With this spell he does it all!" (...) "Well jKevaddha! Just because I
see the danger of the practice of mystic wonders, the taunts me, the hate and are ashamed
of them."
And if the Buddhist yogi manifest the power of divining the thinking and feelings of the
people, and so on., The unbeliever would say: "Well, Senor, there is a spell called the
enchantment of the Jewels. By that makes all this enchantment the ... " (Ke-vaddha Sutta,
4; Digha Nikaya, I, 212). That is why the Buddha forbade the demonstration of siddhi:
"You must not, oh bhikku, to see the miracles of iddhi the laity, those miracles that so-
After going past the power of common man. Who will he acts so guilty of a bad action
"(dukkata; Vinaya, II, 112, Vinaya texts, III, 81).
KNOWLEDGE OF STOCKS ABOVE
Among the five (or six) High Science (abhijna) provides the ability to remember always
stocks anteriores.12 Like all other siddhi and abhijna, also this mystical science is part of
the pan-Indian occult tradition, Patanjali lists among the "perfections" (Yoga-Sutra, III,
18) and the Buddha himself recognized that repetition das Samaria, and occasions that the
Brahmins are able to remember up to a considerable number of past lives. "Su-cedes,
monks, that this or that religious (Samana) or Brahman, through its burning through your
energy thanks to a perfect (...) attention of spirit, scope absorption thoughts such that
Once absorbed his thought (completely pure, completely clean mind, spotless, free of
impurities) said its vari-ous homes earlier in life - namely, a life, two lives, three ... four
... five ... ten ... twenty ... fifty thousand ... ... ... one hundred thousand stocks in such a
way that will say: at that time I had the name, this family such caste, such a scheme of co
-midas, experienced such pleasure and such suffering, reach that age. When I lost that
life, into this one. Here was this behalf, that family life (...) Losing ess reach my current
existence. Asi remember is how his various residences in life
12 In other classifications, this power yoga is the first of the three sciences (vidya) or the
eighth of the "forces of wisdom" (jnanao praj-Nabala). According to Buddhist
scholasticism, the latter belongs to Buddhists only, while abhijna and vidya are equally
accessible to others; P. Demieville, Sur la memoire des existence antMewes (Bulletin
Ecole Fr Extreme-Orient, p. 283-298).
before, with its features, with details of the facts. "Then he says: The Self and world are
eternal, sterile, straight as a coati, are stable as a pillar ..." (Dighanikaya, I, 27, trans. L.
Renou, also in Digha, III, 108).
But the Buddha refuses to accept the philosophical conclusions drawn by the Brahmins
Samaria and the memory of his former existences, namely: the eternity of the self and the
world. But exactly refuses to draw any conclusion, "Now, monks, the Tathagata knows
this: those points of doctrine, so tornadoes, so treated, have this or that out, enclose a
given destination. This is what that the Tathagata knows, and knows more aim: no
mention of that knowledge, not talking about it, know peace through itself (Digha, i, 30).
The Buddha refused to speculate upon meta-physical implications that could be inferred.
of this or that experience above-normal part of their teaching, not to be drawn into
discussions idle ultimate reality. In the text just mentioned, we see that the Brahmins
Samana and postulate the "eternity" the world and the fact I found the same world and the
same stock before I one hundred thousand. However, this conclusion is not necessarily