The Life Stories of the Monks – 1852
evaṁ vimutto udatāri oghaṁ,
atiṇṇa-pubbaṁ apunabbhavāya.
An Arahat, who has destroyed the pollutants (
āsava
) is freed from above
(
uddhaṁ
) from the material elements (
rūpa-dhātu
) and the immaterial
elements (
arūpa-dhātu
), as well as from below (
adho
) from the elements
of sensual pleasure (
kāma-dhātu
) and also with regard to all kinds
(
sabbadhi
) of formations, is freed in the manner of the three kinds of
deliverance: deliverance by elimination (
vikkhambhana-vimutti
),
deliverance by cutting off (
samuccheda-vimutti
) and deliverance by
calming (
paṭipassaddhi-vimutti
). That Arahat, who has destroyed his
pollutants (
āsava
), no longer wrongly sees through conceit and false view,
with regard to the five aggregates of form, feeling, perception, volitions
and consciousness, taking it as: “This really I am!” The Arahat, who has
thus been delivered in all ways from the ten fetters and all unwholesome
things, has crossed the fourfold whirlpool or the whirlpool of Saṁsāra
which he had never dreamed to do before the attainment of the noble path.
He had crossed over to the other shore through total extinction
(
anupādisesa-nibbāna
) and stands blissfully there, taking no new birth.
As has been described in the first discourse (
sutta
), while meditating based on
the first advice received from Ven. Sāriputta, Ven. Lakuṇḍaka Bhaddiya
became an Arahat. But Ven. Sāriputta was unaware of this through lack of
reflection, and still thought
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that Bhaddiya was a learner.
This is a summary of the Second Discourse about Lakuṇḍaka Bhaddiya
(
Dutiya -Lakuṇḍaka-Bhaddiya-sutta
, Ud 7.2).
On a later day Ven. Sāriputta taught him again in detail, how to reach
Awakening, by doubling the length of the discourse and touching upon many
points, just as a very generous supporter, when asked for a little, would lavishly
give more than what was required. On his part, Ven. Lakuṇḍaka Bhaddiya did
not react by thinking: “Now that I have done my duty as a monk, what is the use
of this teaching of his,” instead he listened to the teaching as before, with all
reverence to the Dhamma (
Dhamma-gārava
).
Seeing the situation, the Buddha, staying at the Jetavana monastery of Sāvatthī,
uttered a solemn utterance by means of his supernormal power so that Ven.