dn23:15.0 2.7. The Simile of the Dream
BAGIAN 15
dn23:15.1 “Well then, chieftain, I’ll ask you about this in return, and you can answer as you like.
dn23:15.2 Do you recall ever having a midday nap and seeing delightful parks, woods, meadows, and lotus ponds in a dream?”
dn23:15.3 “I do, worthy Kassapa.”
dn23:15.4 “At that time were you guarded by hunchbacks, dwarves, coquettes, and maidens?”
dn23:15.5 “I was.”
dn23:15.6 “But did they see your soul entering or leaving?”
dn23:15.7 “No they did not.”
dn23:15.8 “So if they couldn’t even see your soul entering or leaving while you were still alive,
dn23:15.9 how could you see the soul of a dead man?
dn23:15.10 By this method, too, it ought to be proven that
dn23:15.11 there is an afterlife, there are beings reborn spontaneously, and there is a fruit or result of good and bad deeds.”