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impossible for one who is dead and gone, who has been cremated, how can he be seen again? This is an event of the past. How can the past be recreated as the present? To me and you it may seem as an event from the past, but to the scientist who views time and space as relative, it may not be so.
The method of thinking and its many pictures
In the Jain agamas there are five kinds of knowledge explained. Among them the fourth is manahaparyavagyan. The one who has this knowledge reads other people's minds. He is able to know how the other person is thinking. In Nandi sutra this knowledge has been discussed at length. In the discussion, the writer has posed many questions and given their answers too. The question: "Can manahaparyavagyan look into the mind of a person who lived ten thousand years ago?” In the text of the reply it is said, that, yes, it can be known very clearly. Another question asked is, “Can manahaparyavagyan know the mind of a person to be born fifty thousand years hence?” Time has become one. There is no past or future everything has become the present.
Acharya Mahaprajna
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