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EXAMINATION OF THE PERSON OF SUPER-NORMAL VISION'. 1547
The answer to this is that the 'mortality' of the Lord has not been proved. This is what is pointed out in the following
TEXT (3550).
BEING BEYOND THE 'METEMPSYCHIC CYCLE' CONSISTING OF THE 'FIVE STATES', THE Buddhas ARE NOT HELD BY US TO BE 'MORTAL'. WHAT HAS BEEN REGARDED AS THEIR 'BIRTH' IS ONLY
THE CREATION OF THEMSELVES BY
THEMSELVES.-(3550)
COMMENTARY.
'Hell', 'Regions of the Dead', 'Regions of Beasts', 'Region of Celestials' and 'the Human Regions'-are tho 'five states that make up the 'Metempsychic Cycle';-the Blessed Lords all lie beyond this five-fold Cycle; so that their 'mortality' cannot be admitted.
Question :- How is it then they are heard of as having been born in the family of Shuddhodana and others ?”
Answer :- What has been regarled, etc. etc.'-(3550)
The following Text supports this same idea by scriptures :
TEXT (3551)
"IT IS IN THE DELIGHTFUL CITY OF Akanistha, FREE FROM THE HABITATION OF UNCLEAN BEINGS, THAT THE Buddhas BECOME AWAKENED; AND WHAT IS AWAKENED HERE IN THIS WORLD) IS
ONLY THEIR OWN CREATION'--(3551)
COMMENTARY.
Akanintha' is the name of a certain region ;-'free from the habitetion of unclean Beings' Ashuddhävisakāyika' are celestial beings;-hore only such people dwell who are noblo and pure;-on the top of this rests the Maheshara-Bhavana (the Palace of the Supreme Lord)-it is in this Palace that there appear the Bodhisattvas who have passed through the 'ten stages and reached the highest;what is perceived here in the world is only what is created under their supervision.
Such is the assertion met with in the scriptures.-(3551)
It might be argued by the Opponent that "We do not admit of what has been asserted here".
The answer to that is as follows:
