[335] "When his mind (citta) is thus concentrated … and has attained imperturbability, he directs and inclines the mind to the knowledge (ñāṇa) 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, 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 influence of wrong view—with the breaking up of the body, after death, they have reappeared 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 influence of right view—with the breaking up of the body, after death, they 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, student, if there were a mansion at the central crossroads, and a man with good eyesight standing there were to see people entering a house, leaving it, walking along the street on the carriage-road, and sitting at the central crossroads, it would occur to him: 'These people are entering a house; these are leaving; these are walking along the street on the carriage-road; these are sitting at the central crossroads'—even so, student, a bhikkhu … . In that, student, a bhikkhu, when the mind is thus concentrated … and has attained 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. This too pertains to his wisdom."
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.