(59) Sariputras said : “ All Buddhas equal in number to the sands of the river Ganga are attaining to or have attained to or will attain to supreme enlightenment—what does that then mean ? ” She said: “ It is because of the letters and numbers of those worlds that we speak of the past, the present, and the future; but in enlightenment there is neither past nor present nor future.” She asked : “ O Sariputra, hast thou attained to the way of Arhat?”