[137] When his mind (citta) is thus concentrated, purified, cleansed, unblemished, rid of defilements, malleable, wieldy, steady, and attained to imperturbability, he directs and inclines the mind to the knowledge (ñāṇa) of the passing away and reappearance of beings. With the divine eye (dibbacakkhu), 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, alas, endowed with misconduct of body, endowed with misconduct of speech, endowed with misconduct of mind, revilers of the noble ones, holding wrong view, undertaking actions under the influence of wrong view — they, with the breaking up of the body, after death, have reappeared in a state of deprivation, a bad destination, a place of ruin, hell. But these beings, endowed with good conduct of body, endowed with good conduct of speech, endowed with good conduct of mind, not revilers of the noble ones, holding right view, undertaking actions under the influence of right view — they, with the breaking up of the body, after death, have reappeared 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.
Just as, great king, there were a mansion at the central crossroads, and a man with good eyesight standing there might see people entering a house, leaving it, wandering along the carriage-road and the street, and sitting at the central crossroads; and it might occur to him: 'These people are entering the house, these are leaving it, these are wandering along the carriage-road and the street, these are sitting at the central crossroads' — even so, great king, a bhikkhu, when his mind is thus concentrated, purified, cleansed, unblemished, rid of defilements, malleable, wieldy, steady, and attained to imperturbability, directs and inclines the mind to the knowledge of the passing away and reappearance of beings. 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, alas, endowed with misconduct of body, endowed with misconduct of speech, endowed with misconduct of mind, revilers of the noble ones, holding wrong view, undertaking actions under the influence of wrong view — they, with the breaking up of the body, after death, have reappeared in a state of deprivation, a bad destination, a place of ruin, hell. But these beings, endowed with good conduct of body, endowed with good conduct of speech, endowed with good conduct of mind, not revilers of the noble ones, holding right view, undertaking actions under the influence of right view — they, with the breaking up of the body, after death, have reappeared 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.
This too, great king, is a fruit of the ascetic life, visible here and now, more excellent and more sublime than the previous fruits of the ascetic life visible here and now.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.