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i Am I?
ii Or, am I not?
iii What am I?
iv How am I?
v Whence has this being come?
vi Whether will it go?
‘Kaïkhà-vitarana-visuddhi’ means ‘purity by transcending
doubt’ or ‘purification by overcoming doubt’. Thus in order to
reach this stage of purity, one need to transcend or overcome the
16 doubts mentioned above as well as the 8 types of vicikicchà
described in Abhidhamma (See Chapter 2, p.58).
So one need to know one’s past lives as well as one’s future
lives and how the past, the present and the future are inter-related
by the Law of Dependent Origination.
It is stated clearly in Visuddhi Magga (II, 221 Myanmar) and
Abhidhamma-aññhakathà (II, 189 Myanmar) that there is no one,
even in dreams, who became enlightened without seeing the
causal relations of Dependent Origination with his own wisdomeye.
In order to correlate the past mental and corporeal
phenomena with those of the present, one must know the mental
and corporeal groups of the past lives as well as those of the
present life. Again to correlate the present with the future, one
should also know the mental and corporeal groups of the future
lives.
How can one know the past mental and corporeal
phenomena which have already dissolved and the future
phenomena which do not come into existence yet?
Well, the ability of the samàdhi-mind is marvellous. We have
learnt about pubbenivàsànussati-abhi¤¤à which can remember