[847] Therein, what is the Tathāgata's knowledge (ñāṇa) of the passing away and reappearance of beings?
Here the Tathāgata, with the divine eye (dibbacakkhu), purified and surpassing the human, sees beings passing away and reappearing—inferior and superior, beautiful and ugly, fortunate and unfortunate—and he understands beings as faring in accordance with their kamma: "These worthy beings, alas, endowed with misconduct by body, endowed with misconduct by speech, endowed with misconduct by mind, revilers of the noble ones, holding wrong view, undertaking kamma based on wrong view—these, with the breakup of the body, after death, have been reborn in a state of loss, a bad destination, perdition, hell. But these worthy beings, endowed with good conduct by body, endowed with good conduct by speech, endowed with good conduct by mind, not revilers of the noble ones, holding right view, undertaking kamma based on right view—these, with the breakup of the body, after death, have been reborn 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, beautiful and ugly, fortunate and unfortunate—and he understands beings as faring in accordance with their kamma.
That which therein is wisdom, understanding, … non-delusion, investigation of dhammas (dhammavicaya), right view—this is the Tathāgata's knowledge, as it really is, of the passing away and reappearance of beings.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.