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Preface
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 Chapter 1: Pramuditā
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Chapter 2: Vimalā
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Chapter 3: Prabhākarī
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Chapter 4: Arciṣmatī
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Chapter 5: Sudurjayā
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Chapter 6: Abhimukhī
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Chapter 7: Dūraṃgamā
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Chapter 8: Acalā
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Chapter 9: Sādhumatī
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Chapter 10: Dharmameghā
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Chapter 11: buddhabhūmi
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As stated:
Furthermore, the Tathāgata has precise knowledge of all karma occurring in the past, future and at present, and the occasion, reason, nature and effect of their having been committed. How does he know them? O son of noble family, the Tathāgata sees how past karma created through virtue, and unrelated to non-virtue, will yield something wholesome in the future. The Tathāgata sees how karma created through non-virtue, and divorced from virtue, will yield something unwholesome in the future. He likewise knows what kind of karma will bring baseness in the future, and what will bring excellence. And he knows that which can be base at present but will lead to excellence in the future, and what is excellent at present but will bring baseness in the future. He likewise knows the details of each such combination accordingly. The Tathāgata likewise knows the kinds of acts that had a limited application when committed in the past, but will grow and have a vast application in the future; what might have been a small undertaking that will have a significant outcome, and what was a significant undertaking that will have an insignificant outcome; which actions will yield the result of a hearer, which will yield the result of a solitary buddha, and which will yield the result of the awakening of a buddha. The Tathāgata knows which types of acts are painful in the present but will yield a pleasant result in the future, and which are pleasant at present but will yield an unpleasant result in the future. In this way, the Tathāgata knows precisely the acts of sentient beings of the past, present and future, their causes and their results, and knows them directly and without intermediary. Informed by this knowledge he teaches the Dharma accordingly. This is the second tathāgata-activity of the Tathāgata.1