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valid, as the Samana and the Brahmans were always there in time-and Buddha's problem,
the problem of Yoga, were jus settling the "Time Out", access to the unconditioned: the
comments made within the infinite sky of the trans-migration, nothing could be inferred
as to the " reality "that began more karmic alia sky.
As the Samana and the Brahmins, Buddhist monks are en-forced to recall their past lives.
"He, who has concentrated, purified, clarified the spirit (...) becomes their minds to the
knowledge of previous residences, by mem-ory. Remember the various previous
residences, an existence of two stocks, three. .. four ... five ... ten ... Cincu-ta, a hundred,
thousand, one hundred thousand stock (...) various periods of creation and destruction
"(Majjhimanikaya ^, 22; in other texts, DemievihV pag. 284). As we see, this is the same
High Science, both among Buddhists as among non-Buddhists. ^ What is this science?
The texts do not say anything, show that the here-jes way off the notion of eternity,
knowledge of their vi-das earlier, but the Buddhist notion being alone specified in the
literature appears that in the An -
contiguous memory of past lives is conceived in the spirit of yoga as a 'simple
supernatural knowledge "(Demieville, cited, pag. 299). From Mahavibhasa specifies the
benefit that a Buddhist monk can draw from this high Science: the reluctance of
intermittent (non-permanent cia) and the same opinion is shared by the Abhidharma Kosa
^ Vasubandhu (Demieville, pag. 292 et seq.).
But this justification late Buddhist scholasticism not look right and reveals the triumph of
the "theoretical" versus "experimental feeders" of the theory against the mystic yogi. On
the use given by the Buddha to the knowledge of past lives, although we have no
information as to guide us. So, for starters, remember that the Buddha placed great
importance on the function of such memory: the gods lost their divine status and fall from
the heavens when "his memory is confused" (Digha, i, 19). But still: the inability to recall
old stocks toci ignorance equals metaphysics / Buddha makes the case of the fallen gods
of heaven because of his poor memory, some of them, once made men, withdrew from
the world, practiced asceticism and meditation and obtained through yogic discipline, the
ability to remember their past lives, but not all (Dhiga, id.) so they do not remember the
beginning of the series of stock, and because of this "neglect" have a mistaken idea of the
eternity of the world and the gods. So, the Buddha placed in a privileged place the ability
to recognize old stocks. Through this mystical ability, it could access the "beginning of
time", implying, as we shall see, the "Time Out".
Ananda and other disciples "recalled the birth" (Jatim saranti) were of "the-whoremembered-the-birth"
(jatissara). A.
K. Coomaraswamy has the epithet pointing or jatissaro (Muinde Panha, 78, etc..)
Reminds the epithet of Agni, jdtavedas because Agni also "knows all births
(visvavedajanima, Rig Veda, VI, 15, 13) and is" omniscient "(visvavit, Rig Veda, III, 29,
7, etc.).. Vamadeva, author of a celebrated hymn Rigveda, was speaking
13 Recollection, Indian and Platonic (Supplement to the Journal of the
American Oriental Society, n. 3 April-june 1944, p. 1-18).
to himself: "found in the matrix (garbha nu san) have known all births of the gods" (Rig
Veda, IV, 27, 1, according to the Garbha Upanishad, III, 4, the memory of intrauterine
life na is lost at birth), "This is what Vamaveda, found in the matrix" (itareya Aranyaka,
II, 5). Krisna "knows all stocks (Bhagavad-Gua, IV, 5). So, then, for Brahmanism as for
the Buddha, the memory (in short, knowledge) was a faculty" divine "and extremely