• Numbered Discourses 7.92 Aį¹…guttara Nikāya 7.92
  • 9. An Ascetic 9. Samaṇavagga

A Perfected One Arahāsutta

ā€œMendicants, it’s by being impeccably remote from seven things that you become a perfected one. ā€œÄ€rakattā arahā hoti. What seven? Katamesaṁ sattannaṁ? Substantialist view, doubt, misapprehension of precepts and observances, greed, hate, delusion, and conceit. Sakkāyadiį¹­į¹­hi ārakā hoti, vicikicchā ārakā hoti, sÄ«labbataparāmāso ārako hoti, rāgo ārako hoti, doso ārako hoti, moho ārako hoti, māno ārako hoti. It’s because of being impeccably remote from these seven things that you become a perfected one.ā€ Imesaṁ kho, bhikkhave, sattannaṁ dhammānaṁ ārakattā arahā hotÄ«ā€ti.

Aṭṭhamaṁ.