The Uncertainty of Rebirth and Knowledge : หน้า 60/112

"Reverend sir, you yourself know that I was going to the weaver’s workshop with my shuttle-basket in hand. So when you asked me, ‘Where are you going?’ I knew very well that your meaning was, ‘When you pass away, where will you be reborn?’ But as for me, where I shall be reborn when I have passed from this present existence, that I do not know.” Then the Teacher said to her, “You have answered correctly the question I asked you.” Thus did the Teacher congratulate her the second time, and having so done, asked her yet another question, “When I asked you, ‘Do you not know?’ why did you say, ‘I know’?” “Reverend sir, this I know, that I shall surely die; and therefore I said so.” Then the Teacher said to her, “You have answered correctly the question I asked you.” Thus did the Teacher congratulate her the third time, and having done so, he asked her yet another question, “When I asked you, ‘Do you know?’ why did you say, ‘I do not know’?” “This only do I know, reverend sir, that I shall surely die; but at what time I shall die, whether in the night or in the daytime, whether in the morning or at some other time, that I do not know; and therefore I said so.”