The Threefold Knowledge and Six Supernatural Powers of the Great Arhat with Complete Liberation

The Great Arhat with the Three Insights and Six Supernatural Powers achieves complete liberation. The Three Insights are: the Insight into the Exhaustion of Defilements, the Insight into the Divine Eye, and the Insight into Past Lives.

The Insight into the Exhaustion of Defilements means the complete cessation of all afflictions such as greed, hatred, delusion, arrogance, doubt, and wrong views, with no remaining view-delusions or thought-delusions.

The Insight into the Divine Eye activates the supernatural power of the divine eye, enabling observation throughout the great trichiliocosm, from the heavens above to the earth below.

The Insight into Past Lives allows one to know the events of one's own and others' past and future lives spanning eighty thousand great kalpas.

The Six Supernatural Powers are: the power of miraculous abilities, the divine eye, the divine ear, mind-reading, knowledge of past lives, and the exhaustion of defilements.

Non-Buddhists can attain only the first five supernatural powers but cannot achieve the exhaustion of defilements. Complete liberation combines both wisdom liberation and concentration liberation. Wisdom liberation involves attaining at least the first dhyāna concentration and possessing the wisdom to liberate oneself from the cycle of birth and death, using this wisdom to transcend the three realms. Concentration liberation entails mastering the four dhyānas and eight concentrations, along with supernatural powers, but lacks the wisdom of liberation. At the end of one's lifespan, one can rely on meditative concentration to transcend the three realms and attain liberation. Possessing the merits of both wisdom liberation and concentration liberation constitutes the Great Arhat with the Three Insights and Six Supernatural Powers who has achieved complete liberation.