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Bhagavai 5:3:57-58
- 209 :In this way one soul experiences the life-span of two lives at the same time,
for instance, the life-span of this life and the life-span of the next life. 5.58 se kahameyam bhamte! evam?
goyamā! ja nnam tam annuutthiyā tam jahā-jāva parabhaviyāuyam cā je te evamāhamsu tam micchā, aham puna goyamā! evamāikkhāmi bhāsāmi pannavemi parūvemtise jahānämae jalagamthiyā siya-ānupuvvigadhiyā anamtaragadhiyā paramparagadhiyā unnamannagadhiyā, annumannagaruyattae annamannabhāriyattāe annamannagaruya-sambhāriyattāe annamannaghadattāe citthati, evāmeva egamegassa jīvassa bahūhim ajātisahassehim bahūim āuyasahassāim ānupuvvigadhiyāim jāva citthamti. ege vi ya nam jīve egenam samaenam egam āuyāim padisamvedei, tam jaha--ihabhaviyāuyam vä, parabhaviyāyuam vā. jam samayam ihabhaviyāuyam padisamvedei, no tam samayam parabhaviyāuyam padisamvedei. jam samayam parabhaviyāuyam padisamvedei, no tam samayam ihabhaviyāuyam padisamvedei ihabhaviyāuyassa padisamvedanayāe, no parabhaviyāuyam padisamvedei. parabhaviyāuyassa padisamvedanayāe, no ihabhaviyāuyam padisamvedei. evam khalu ege jīve egenam samaenam egenam āuyāim padisamvedei, tam jahā-ihabhaviyāuyan vā, pabhaviyāuyam vā. How is it so, O Lord!? Gautama! the saying of the heretic teachers ...... up to one soul experiences the life-spans of two lives at the same time, for instance, the life-span of this life and the life-span of the next life, is false. Gautama! I say, speak, proclaim and propound thus-suppose there is a net with knots woven in order without any gap in between them, connected immediately and remotedly with one another, existing expanded with one another and weighty with one another, expanded and weighty with one another, stuck with one another. In the same way, in respect of each soul, there are nets with (knots of) several thousand life-spans by several thousand births, which are woven in order without any gap in between them ..... up to stuck with one another. One soul at one time experiences one life-span, for instance, the life-span of this life or the life-span of next life. When the soul experiences the life-span of this life, it does not experience at the same time the life-span of the next life. When the soul experiences the life-span of the next life, it does not experience the life-span of this life. By experiencing the life-span of this life, it does not experience the life-span of the next life, By experiencing the life-span of the next life, it does not experience the lifespan of this life. In this way one soul experiences the life-span of one life, for instance the lifespan of this life or the life-span of the next life.
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