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of not directly knowing the origin of consciousness, of not directly knowing the cessation of consciousness, of not directly knowing the path leading to the cessation of consciousness…” From not having grasped, from not having made it a direct experience; thus these various kinds of views arise in the world— 'the world is eternal' or 'the world is not eternal'...and so on... 'the Tathāgata neither is nor is not after death'. "This, Vaccha, is the reason, this is the cause, why these various kinds of views arise in the world— 'the world is eternal' or 'the world is not eternal', 'the world is finite' or 'the world is infinite', 'the soul is the same as the body' or 'the soul is one thing, the body another', 'the Tathāgata exists after death' or 'the Tathāgata does not exist after death', 'the Tathāgata both exists and does not exist after death' or 'the Tathāgata neither exists nor does not exist after death'." The Fifty-fifth. The Connected Discourses with Vacchagotta are finished. Its summary – From not knowing, and from not seeing; from not comprehending, from not understanding; From not penetrating, from not discerning; from not observing, from not directly observing; From not reflecting, from not directly reflecting; from not making it a direct experience.