Path of Freedom [Vimuttimagga]

224 Vimuttimaggaentering into concentration 1 or without entering into concentration, are ableto recall to mind always. The rest can recall only through entering into concentration.The knowledge of the recollection of past lives has endedXDIVINE SIGHTQ. Who practises divine sight? How many kinds of divine sight arethere? How is divine sight developed?A. He who enters the fourth meditation, jhana, on the light kasina andacquires facility therein, and by him who is in possession of natural sight.How many kinds of divine sight are there? A. There are two kindsof divine sight, namely, that which is produced by well-wrought kamma 2 andthat which is produced by the strength of energetic developing. 3 Here,divine sight which is accumulated kamma is born of (kamma) result. Therebyone can see whether there are jewels or not in a treasury. "That which isproduced by the strength of energetic developing" means that which is producedby the practice of the four bases of supernormal power.How is divine sight developed ? Having practised the four bases of supernormalpower and gained control of the mind, the new yogin, being pure andimmovable, enters the light kasina. Attaining to the fourth meditation,jhana, he attends to and resolves upon the perception of light and the perceptionof day thus: "This day is like night; this night is like day". 4 His mind beingfree from all obstruction and from all clinging, he is able to strengthen hismind and increase light. To that yogin who strengthens and increases hislight, there is nothing obscure. There is nothing covered, and he surpassesthe sun in splendour. Practising thus, that yogin diffuses his body with lightand attends to colour and form. With the purified divine sight which surpasseshuman vision, that yogin "sees beings disappearing and reappearing,coarse and fine, beautiful and ugly, faring well or faring ill, according to theirdeeds. 5 Here, if one wishes to cause the arising of divine sight, he shouldsuppress these defilements: uncertainty, wrong mindfulness, rigidity andtorpor, pride, wrong joy, slanderous talk, excessive exercise of energy, toolittle exercise of energy, frivolous talk, perceptions of diversity, excessivelahukarh. Yo cirarh jivati so vassasatam appam vd bhiyyo. Mdgadhakd bhikkhavemanussa Vepullam pabbatarh muhuttena drohanti muhuttena orohanti.Etarahi kho pandham bhikkhave araham sammdsambuddho loke uppanno... pe ...1. Samddhi (transliteration).2. Sucaritakammanibbatta.3. Viriyabhavdnd balanibbatta.4. Cp. D. Ill, 223: idK avuso bhikkhu dlokasahnam manasi-karoti, divd-sahham adhiffhdtiyatha diva tatha rattirh, yatha rattim tatha diva, iti vivatena cetasd apariyonaddhenasappabhasam cittarh bhaveti.5. It. 100; A. IV, 178: Iti dibbena cakkhund visuddhena atikkantamdnusakena satte passamicavamdne upapajjamdne, hine panite suvanne dubbanne sugate duggate yathakammupagesatte pajdnami.