• Numbered Discourses 10.12 Aṅguttara Nikāya 10.12
  • 2. A Protector 2. Nāthavagga

Five Factors Pañcaṅgasutta

“Mendicants, in this teaching and training a mendicant who has given up five factors and possesses five factors is called consummate, accomplished, a supreme person. “Pañcaṅgavippahīno, bhikkhave, bhikkhu pañcaṅgasamannāgato imasmiṁ dhammavinaye ‘kevalī vusitavā uttamapuriso’ti vuccati.

And how has a mendicant given up five factors? Kathañca, bhikkhave, bhikkhu pañcaṅgavippahīno hoti? It’s when a mendicant has given up sensual desire, ill will, dullness and drowsiness, restlessness and remorse, and doubt. Idha, bhikkhave, bhikkhuno kāmacchando pahīno hoti, byāpādo pahīno hoti, thinamiddhaṁ pahīnaṁ hoti, uddhaccakukkuccaṁ pahīnaṁ hoti, vicikicchā pahīnā hoti. That’s how a mendicant has given up five factors. Evaṁ kho, bhikkhave, bhikkhu pañcaṅgavippahīno hoti.

And how does a mendicant have five factors? Kathañca, bhikkhave, bhikkhu pañcaṅgasamannāgato hoti? It’s when a mendicant has the entire spectrum of an adept’s ethics, immersion, wisdom, freedom, and knowledge and vision of freedom. Idha, bhikkhave, bhikkhu asekhena sīlakkhandhena samannāgato hoti, asekhena samādhikkhandhena samannāgato hoti, asekhena paññākkhandhena samannāgato hoti, asekhena vimuttikkhandhena samannāgato hoti, asekhena vimuttiñāṇadassanakkhandhena samannāgato hoti. That’s how a mendicant has five factors. Evaṁ kho, bhikkhave, bhikkhu pañcaṅgasamannāgato hoti.

In this teaching and training a mendicant who has given up five factors and possesses five factors is called consummate, accomplished, a supreme person. Pañcaṅgavippahīno kho, bhikkhave, bhikkhu pañcaṅgasamannāgato imasmiṁ dhammavinaye ‘kevalī vusitavā uttamapuriso’ti vuccati.

Sensual desire, ill will, Kāmacchando ca byāpādo, dullness and drowsiness, thinamiddhañca bhikkhuno; restlessness, and doubt Uddhaccaṁ vicikicchā ca, are not found in a mendicant at all. sabbasova na vijjati.

That sort are accomplished Asekhena ca sīlena, in an adept’s ethics, asekhena samādhinā; an adept’s immersion, Vimuttiyā ca sampanno, and freedom and knowledge. ñāṇena ca tathāvidho.

Possessing these five factors, Sa ve pañcaṅgasampanno, and rid of five factors, pañca aṅge vivajjayaṁ; in this teaching and training Imasmiṁ dhammavinaye, they’re called ‘consummate’.” kevalī iti vuccatī”ti.

Dutiyaṁ.