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dasa-(tathāgata-) bala
'the ten powers (of a Perfect One); or, he who Possesses the 10 P.', i.e. the Buddha.
About him it is said (e.g., M.12.; A.X.21):
There, o monks, the Perfect One understands according to reality the possible as possible, and the impossible as impossible ...
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the result of past, present and future actions ...
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the path leading to the welfare of all ...
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the world with its many different elements ...
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the different inclinations in beings ...
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the lower and higher faculties in beings ...
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the defilement, purity and rising with regard to the absorptions, deliverances, concentration and attainments ...
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remembering many former rebirths ...
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perceiving with the divine eye how beings vanish and reappear again according to their actions (karma) ...
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gaining, through extinction of all taints, possession of 'deliverance of mind' and 'deliverance through wisdom' ...."