Nettipakaraṇa: Sāsanapaṭṭhāna (the Pattern Of The Dispensation) | The Four Verifiables

Bhikkhus, there are these four verifiables. What four?

(1) There are ideas verifiable by the eye and by understanding

(2) There are ideas verifiable by mindfulness and by understanding

(3) There are ideas verifiable by the body and by understanding

(4) There are ideas experienceable through understanding and verifiable by understanding

(1) What ideas are verifiable by the eye and by understanding? The heavenly eye, which is purified and surpasses the human, is verifiable by the eye and by understanding.

(2) What ideas are verifiable by mindfulness and by understanding? The recollection of past life is verifiable by mindfulness and by understanding.

(3) What ideas are verifiable by the body and by understanding? The power of supernormal success, and cessation, are verifiable by the body and by understanding.

(4) What ideas are experienceable through understanding and verifiable by understanding? The knowledge of exhaustion of taints is experienceable through understanding and verifiable by understanding.

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- Nettipakaraṇa: Sāsanapaṭṭhāna (The Pattern Of The Dispensation) | The Four Verifiables