Migasālā Sutta
SuttaA discourse in which Ānanda relays to the Buddha the laywoman Migasālā’s puzzlement over why both a celibate and a non-celibate disciple attained the same rebirth in Tusita, prompting the Buddha to explain that only a Tathāgata can truly measure the diversity of persons’ spiritual attainments.
Ānanda visits Migasālā in her home and is questioned as to why both Purāṇa and Isidatta, the former of whom was a celibate (brahmacārī) and the latter not, should both have been born in Tusita, as Once-Returners. Ānanda offers no explanation, but consults the Buddha, who declares that Migasālā is but a foolish, frail, woman with none but a mother’s wit; how, then, could she understand the diversity in the person of man? (purisa-puggala-paropariya-ñāṇa). The Buddha then goes on to divide men into six classes according to their capabilities and attainments. It is not possible for anyone, save a Tathāgata, to measure persons. A.iii.347 ff; v. 137 ff.
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