Understanding the Divine Eye and Existence : หน้า 30/130

This Life Next Life 28 We do not believe him when he says these things. 'That, Prince, is just as if there were a man born blind who could not see objects as dark or bright, as blue, yellow, red or brown; who could not see things as smooth or rough, nor the stars, nor moon, nor sun. And he were to say: - "There are none of these things, nor any one capable of seeing them. I don't know them, I don't see them; therefore they don't exist." Would one so speaking, speak rightly, Prince?' 'Not so, Master Kassapa. The visual objects of which you speak do exist, and so does the faculty of seeing them.' To say "I don't know them, I don't see them; therefore they don't exist": that would not be speaking rightly.' 'But even so, methinks, do you, Prince, talk like the blind man in my parable when you say: - "But who lets Master Kassapa know that there are Three - and - Thirty Gods, or that the Three - and - Thirty Gods live so many years? We do not believe him when he says these things."' For, Prince, the other world is not, as you imagine, to be regarded with this fleshly eye. Those Wanderers and Brahmins who haunt the lonely and remote recesses of the forest, where noise, where sound there hardly is, they there abiding strenuous, ardent, aloof, purify the eye divine; they by that purified eye divine, passing the vision of men, see both this world and that other world, and beings reborn not of parents.