| Бхиккху Бодхи |
The second and following doctrines, because they teach the annihilation of a self arisen in some state of existence successively higher than the self mentioned in each immediately preceding doctrine, are correctly classed as speculations about the future. Thus they say: “But it is not at that point that the self is completely annihilated. ” And when they say: “For there is, good sir, another self,” this is said in reference to the distinction [between (that self and) the lower individual forms beginning with the human form]. But there is no such contrast in every case. |