Saṁyutta Nikāya,
V: Mahā-Vagga
48. Indriya Saṁyutta
III. Chaḷindriya-vaggo

48. Kindred Sayings on the Faculties
III. The Six Faculties

Sutta 27

Paṭhama Arahatā Suttaṁ

Arahant¹ or Enlightened (a)

 

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THUS have I heard:

Once the Exalted One was staying near Sāvatthī.

Then the Exalted One addressed the monks,
saying:

"Monks."

"Yes, lord," replied those monks to the Exalted One.

The Exalted One said:

"Monks, there are these six sense-faculties.

What six?

The sense-faculty of eye,
the sense-faculty of ear,
the sense-faculty of nose,
the sense-faculty of tongue,
the sense-faculty of body
the sense-faculty of mind.

These are the six sense faculties.

When a monk,² by seeing,
as they really are,
the arising
and the perishing of,
the satisfaction in,
the misery of
and the escape from
these six sense-faculties,
becomes released without grasping, -
such a monk is called 'Arahant,
in whom the āsavas are destroyed,
one who has lived the life,
done the task,
lifted the burden,
a winner of his own welfare,
one who has outworn the fetters of rebirth,
one released by perfect insight.'"

 

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¹ Text arahatā for arahā.

² N.B. 'monk' not 'Ariyan disciple,' because the life has to be lived by such, in order to attain. (This, of course, is from a monkish point of view.)