{"id":"an4.88","title":"Fetters","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"an4.88","title":"Fetters","units":[{"id":"an4.88:0","sourceIds":["an4.88:0.1","an4.88:0.2","an4.88:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Aṅguttara Nikāya 4.88\n9. Macalavagga\nSaṁyojanasutta","en":"Numbered Discourses 4.88\n9. Confirmed\nFetters"}},{"id":"an4.88:1","sourceIds":["an4.88:1.1","an4.88:1.2","an4.88:1.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Cattārome, bhikkhave, puggalā santo saṁvijjamānā lokasmiṁ.\nKatame cattāro?\nSamaṇamacalo, samaṇapuṇḍarīko, samaṇapadumo, samaṇesu samaṇasukhumālo.","en":"“Mendicants, these four individuals are found in the world.\nWhat four?\nThe confirmed ascetic, the white lotus ascetic, the pink lotus ascetic, and the delicate ascetic of ascetics."}},{"id":"an4.88:2","sourceIds":["an4.88:2.1","an4.88:2.2","an4.88:2.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Kathañca, bhikkhave, puggalo samaṇamacalo hoti?\nIdha, bhikkhave, bhikkhu tiṇṇaṁ saṁyojanānaṁ parikkhayā sotāpanno hoti avinipātadhammo niyato sambodhiparāyaṇo.\nEvaṁ kho, bhikkhave, puggalo samaṇamacalo hoti.","en":"And how is an individual a confirmed ascetic?\nIt’s when a mendicant—with the ending of three fetters—is a stream-enterer, not liable to be reborn in the underworld, assured, destined for awakening.\nThat’s how an individual is a confirmed ascetic."}},{"id":"an4.88:3","sourceIds":["an4.88:3.1","an4.88:3.2","an4.88:3.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Kathañca, bhikkhave, puggalo samaṇapuṇḍarīko hoti?\nIdha, bhikkhave, bhikkhu tiṇṇaṁ saṁyojanānaṁ parikkhayā, rāgadosamohānaṁ tanuttā sakadāgāmī hoti, sakideva imaṁ lokaṁ āgantvā dukkhassantaṁ karoti.\nEvaṁ kho, bhikkhave, puggalo samaṇapuṇḍarīko hoti.","en":"And how is an individual a white lotus ascetic?\nIt’s when a mendicant—with the ending of three fetters, and the weakening of greed, hate, and delusion—is a once-returner. They come back to this world once only, then make an end of suffering.\nThat’s how an individual is a white lotus ascetic."}},{"id":"an4.88:4","sourceIds":["an4.88:4.1","an4.88:4.2","an4.88:4.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Kathañca, bhikkhave, puggalo samaṇapadumo hoti?\nIdha, bhikkhave, bhikkhu pañcannaṁ orambhāgiyānaṁ saṁyojanānaṁ parikkhayā opapātiko hoti tattha parinibbāyī anāvattidhammo tasmā lokā.\nEvaṁ kho, bhikkhave, puggalo samaṇapadumo hoti.","en":"And how is an individual a pink lotus ascetic?\nIt’s when a mendicant—with the ending of the five lower fetters—is reborn spontaneously. They’re extinguished there, and are not liable to return from that world.\nThat’s how an individual is a pink lotus ascetic."}},{"id":"an4.88:5","sourceIds":["an4.88:5.1","an4.88:5.2","an4.88:5.3","an4.88:5.4","an4.88:5.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Kathañca, bhikkhave, puggalo samaṇesu samaṇasukhumālo hoti?\nIdha, bhikkhave, bhikkhu āsavānaṁ khayā anāsavaṁ cetovimuttiṁ paññāvimuttiṁ diṭṭheva dhamme sayaṁ abhiññā sacchikatvā upasampajja viharati.\nEvaṁ kho, bhikkhave, puggalo samaṇesu samaṇasukhumālo hoti.\nIme kho, bhikkhave, cattāro puggalā santo saṁvijjamānā lokasmin”ti.\nAṭṭhamaṁ.","en":"And how is an individual a delicate ascetic of ascetics?\nIt’s when a mendicant realizes the undefiled freedom of heart and freedom by wisdom. And they live having realized it with their own insight in this very life due to the ending of defilements.\nThat’s how an individual is a delicate ascetic of ascetics.\nThese are the four individuals found in the world.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/an4.88/en/sujato","licence":"CC0 1.0","licenceUrl":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","editionNote":"Full supplied source file; inherited abbreviations are preserved. Not a reconstructed expansion of every repetition. No Malay or Mandarin translation is implied."}