[431] What six dhammas should be realized? The six direct knowledges (abhiññā). Here, friend, a bhikkhu wields the manifold kinds of psychic power (iddhividha): having been one, he becomes many; having been many, he becomes one; he appears and vanishes; he goes unimpeded through a wall, through a rampart, through a mountain, as if through space; he dives in and out of the earth as if it were water; he walks upon water without it parting, as if upon earth; seated cross-legged he travels through the sky like a winged bird; with his hand he touches and strokes even this moon and sun, so mighty, so powerful; and he exercises mastery with the body even as far as the Brahmā world.
With the divine ear element, purified and surpassing the human, he hears both kinds of sounds, the divine and the human, whether far or near.
Having encompassed them with his own mind, he understands the minds (citta) of other beings, of other persons: a mind with lust (rāga) he understands as 'a mind with lust'; a mind free from lust he understands as 'a mind free from lust'; a mind with hatred he understands as 'a mind with hatred'; a mind free from hatred he understands as 'a mind free from hatred'; a mind with delusion he understands as 'a mind with delusion'; a mind free from delusion he understands as 'a mind free from delusion'; a contracted mind he understands as 'a contracted mind'; a distracted mind he understands as 'a distracted mind'; an exalted (mahaggata) mind he understands as 'an exalted mind'; an unexalted mind he understands as 'an unexalted mind'; a surpassable mind he understands as 'a surpassable mind'; an unsurpassable mind he understands as 'an unsurpassable mind'; a concentrated mind he understands as 'a concentrated mind'; an unconcentrated mind he understands as 'an unconcentrated mind'; a liberated mind he understands as 'a liberated mind'; an unliberated mind he understands as 'an unliberated mind'.
He recollects his manifold past abodes, that is: one birth (jāti), two births, three births, four births, five births, ten births, twenty births, thirty births, forty births, fifty births, a hundred births, a thousand births, a hundred thousand births; many aeons of world-contraction, many aeons of world-expansion, many aeons of world-contraction and expansion: 'There I was so named, of such a clan, of such an appearance, with such food, experiencing such pleasure and pain, with such a life-span; passing away from there, I arose in such a place; there too I was so named, of such a clan, of such an appearance, with such food, experiencing such pleasure and pain, with such a life-span; passing away from there, I arose here.' Thus he recollects his manifold past abodes with their aspects and particulars.
With the divine eye, purified and surpassing the human, he sees beings passing away and reappearing—inferior and superior, fair and ugly, fortunate and unfortunate—and he understands beings as faring according to their kamma: 'These beings, sirs, endowed with bodily misconduct, endowed with verbal misconduct, endowed with mental misconduct, revilers of the noble ones, holding wrong view, undertaking actions under the sway of wrong view—with the breaking up of the body, after death, they have arisen in a state of deprivation, a bad destination, a place of ruin, hell. But these beings, sirs, endowed with bodily good conduct, endowed with verbal good conduct, endowed with mental good conduct, not revilers of the noble ones, holding right view, undertaking actions under the sway of right view—with the breaking up of the body, after death, they have arisen in a good destination, a heavenly world.' Thus with the divine eye, purified and surpassing the human, he sees beings passing away and reappearing—inferior and superior, fair and ugly, fortunate and unfortunate—and he understands beings as faring according to their kamma.
With the destruction of the taints (āsava), he realizes for himself with direct knowledge, in this very life, the taintless liberation of mind and liberation by wisdom, and having entered upon it, he dwells therein.
These six dhammas should be realized.
Thus these sixty dhammas—real, true, so, not unreal, not otherwise—have been rightly and fully awakened to by the Tathāgata.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.