Atha kho anāthapiṇḍiko gahapati yena bhagavā tenupasaṅkami; upasaṅkamitvā bhagavantaṁ abhivādetvā ekamantaṁ nisīdi. Ekamantaṁ nisinnaṁ kho anāthapiṇḍikaṁ gahapatiṁ bhagavā etadavoca:
Then the householder Anāthapiṇḍika approached the Blessed One. Having drawn near and paid homage to the Blessed One, he sat down to one side. When Anāthapiṇḍika was seated to one side, the Blessed One addressed him thus:
“Yato, kho, gahapati, ariyasāvakassa pañca bhayāni verāni vūpasantāni honti, catūhi ca sotāpattiyaṅgehi samannāgato hoti, ariyo cassa ñāyo paññāya sudiṭṭho hoti suppaṭividdho, so ākaṅkhamāno attanāva attānaṁ byākareyya: ‘khīṇanirayomhi khīṇatiracchānayoni khīṇapettivisayo khīṇāpāyaduggativinipāto. Sotāpannohamasmi avinipātadhammo niyato sambodhiparāyaṇo’ti.
“Householder, when the five |perilous animosities::volitions, intentions, choices or decisions arising from fear and enmity [verabhaya]| have subsided for a disciple of the Noble Ones, they are endowed with the four factors of stream-entry, and they have clearly seen and thoroughly penetrated with wisdom the |noble principle::noble law [ariya + ñāya]|, they may, if they wish, declare of themselves: ‘I am one finished with rebirth in hell, finished with animal rebirth, finished with the ghost realm, done with states of misery, bad destinations and states of suffering. I am a stream-enterer, not liable to states of suffering, fixed in destiny, |with full awakening as my destination::culminating in enlightenment [sambodhiparāyaṇa]|.’
Katamāni pañca bhayāni verāni vūpasantāni honti? Yaṁ, gahapati, pāṇātipātī pāṇātipātapaccayā diṭṭhadhammikampi bhayaṁ veraṁ pasavati samparāyikampi bhayaṁ veraṁ pasavati cetasikampi dukkhaṁ domanassaṁ paṭisaṁvedeti, pāṇātipātā paṭivirato neva diṭṭhadhammikampi bhayaṁ veraṁ pasavati na samparāyikampi bhayaṁ veraṁ pasavati na cetasikampi dukkhaṁ domanassaṁ paṭisaṁvedeti. Pāṇātipātā paṭiviratassa evaṁ taṁ bhayaṁ veraṁ vūpasantaṁ hoti.
What are the five perilous animosities that have subsided? 1.) Householder, one who kills living beings, dependent on killing living beings, generates peril and animosity |concerning this life::regarding the world, relevant to here and now [diṭṭhadhammika]|, peril and animosity concerning the next life, and they personally experience |suffering::discomfort, unease, unpleasantness, something unsatisfactory, stress [dukkha]| and |displeasure::a negative state of mind; disagreeable feeling or unease born of mental contact, mental pain [domanassa]|. But one who abstains from killing living beings does not generate peril and animosity concerning this life, nor peril and animosity concerning the next life, nor do they personally experience suffering and displeasure. For one who has abstained from killing living beings, that peril and animosity has thus subsided.
Yaṁ, gahapati, adinnādāyī …pe… kāmesumicchācārī … musāvādī … surāmerayamajjapamādaṭṭhāyī surāmerayamajjapamādaṭṭhānapaccayā diṭṭhadhammikampi bhayaṁ veraṁ pasavati samparāyikampi bhayaṁ veraṁ pasavati cetasikampi dukkhaṁ domanassaṁ paṭisaṁvedeti, surāmerayamajjapamādaṭṭhānā paṭivirato neva diṭṭhadhammikampi bhayaṁ veraṁ pasavati na samparāyikampi bhayaṁ veraṁ pasavati na cetasikampi dukkhaṁ domanassaṁ paṭisaṁvedeti. Surāmerayamajjapamādaṭṭhānā paṭiviratassa evaṁ taṁ bhayaṁ veraṁ vūpasantaṁ hoti. Imāni pañca bhayāni verāni vūpasantāni honti.
2.) Householder, |one who takes what is not given::who steals, who takes what is not offered [adinnādāyī]| ... 3.) |one who engages in sexual misconduct::one who engages in adultery or behaves wrongly [kāmesumicchācārī]| ... 4.) |one who speaks falsely::who lies [musāvādī]| ... 5.) one who indulges in spirits, alcoholic beverages, and drugs that are a basis for a |state of negligence::state of intoxication, carelessness [pamādaṭṭhāna]|, dependent on the state of negligence, generates peril and animosity concerning this life, peril and animosity concerning the next life, and they personally experience suffering and displeasure. But one who abstains from indulging in spirits, alcoholic beverages, and drugs that are a basis for a state of negligence does not generate peril and animosity concerning this life, nor peril and animosity concerning the next life, nor do they personally experience suffering and displeasure. For one who has abstained from dwelling in negligence, that peril and animosity has thus subsided. These are the five perilous animosities that have subsided.
Katamehi catūhi sotāpattiyaṅgehi samannāgato hoti? Idha, gahapati, ariyasāvako buddhe aveccappasādena samannāgato hoti: ‘itipi so bhagavā …pe… buddho bhagavā’ti; dhamme aveccappasādena samannāgato hoti: ‘svākkhāto bhagavatā dhammo sandiṭṭhiko akāliko ehipassiko opaneyyiko paccattaṁ veditabbo viññūhī’ti; saṅghe aveccappasādena samannāgato hoti: ‘suppaṭipanno bhagavato sāvakasaṅgho, ujuppaṭipanno bhagavato sāvakasaṅgho, ñāyappaṭipanno bhagavato sāvakasaṅgho, sāmīcippaṭipanno bhagavato sāvakasaṅgho, yadidaṁ cattāri purisayugāni aṭṭha purisapuggalā, esa bhagavato sāvakasaṅgho āhuneyyo pāhuneyyo dakkhiṇeyyo añjalikaraṇīyo anuttaraṁ puññakkhettaṁ lokassā’ti; ariyakantehi sīlehi samannāgato hoti ‘akhaṇḍehi acchiddehi asabalehi akammāsehi bhujissehi viññuppasatthehi aparāmaṭṭhehi samādhisaṁvattanikehi’. Imehi catūhi sotāpattiyaṅgehi samannāgato hoti.
What are the four factors of stream-entry that one is endowed with? Here, householder, a disciple of the Noble Ones is endowed with |perfect clarity::unshakable confidence that arises through direct experience, by personally seeing the benefits in one’s own practice [aveccappasāda]| in the Buddha thus: ‘The Blessed One is ... the Buddha, the Blessed One’; they are endowed with perfect clarity in the |Dhamma::teachings of the Buddha that point to the nature of reality, the ultimate truth [dhamma]| thus: ‘The Dhamma is well proclaimed by the Blessed One, directly visible, immediate, inviting verification, |onward leading::applicable, relevant, practical [opaneyyika]|, to be personally experienced by the wise’; they are endowed with perfect clarity in the |Saṅgha::The community of monks and nuns practicing in line with the Buddha’s teachings. In the broader sense, this is the community of disciples who have realized the noble path and fruition through the Buddha’s teachings [saṅgha]| thus: ‘The community of the Blessed One’s disciples is practicing the good way, practicing the upright way, practicing the true way, practicing the proper way; that is, the four pairs of persons, the eight types of individuals—this community of the Blessed One’s disciples is worthy of gifts, worthy of hospitality, worthy of offerings, worthy of reverential salutation, the unsurpassed field of merit for the world’; they are endowed with virtues that are dear to the Noble Ones—unbroken, untorn, not spotty, unblemished, freeing, praised by the wise, irreproachable, |leading to collectedness::leading to samadhi, conducive to mental composure [samādhisaṃvattanika]|. They are endowed with these four factors of stream-entry.
Katamo cassa ariyo ñāyo paññāya sudiṭṭho hoti suppaṭividdho? Idha, gahapati, ariyasāvako iti paṭisañcikkhati: ‘iti imasmiṁ sati idaṁ hoti; imassuppādā idaṁ uppajjati; imasmiṁ asati idaṁ na hoti; imassa nirodhā idaṁ nirujjhati, yadidaṁ— avijjāpaccayā saṅkhārā, saṅkhārapaccayā viññāṇaṁ, viññāṇapaccayā nāmarūpaṁ, nāmarūpapaccayā saḷāyatanaṁ, saḷāyatanapaccayā phasso, phassapaccayā vedanā, vedanāpaccayā taṇhā, taṇhāpaccayā upādānaṁ, upādānapaccayā bhavo, bhavapaccayā jāti, jātipaccayā jarāmaraṇaṁ sokaparidevadukkhadomanassupāyāsā sambhavanti, evametassa kevalassa dukkhakkhandhassa samudayo hoti; avijjāya tveva asesavirāganirodhā saṅkhāranirodho …pe… evametassa kevalassa dukkhakkhandhassa nirodho hotī’ti. Ayañcassa ariyo ñāyo paññāya sudiṭṭho hoti suppaṭividdho.
And what is the noble principle that has been clearly seen and thoroughly penetrated with wisdom? Here, householder, a disciple of the Noble Ones reflects thus: ‘When this exists, that comes to be; from the arising of this, that arises; when this does not exist, that does not come to be; with the ending of this, that ceases, that is—|dependent on::contingent on, supported by, grounded on [paṭicca]| |ignorance::fundamental unawareness or misunderstanding of the true nature of reality, not experientially understanding the four noble truths [avijjā]|, |intentional constructs::the constructive activity that shapes each moment of experience, expressed as bodily, verbal, and mental formations; the accumulated conditioning — patterns, tendencies, and habits — produced by prior action [saṅkhārā]| [arise]; dependent on intentional constructs, |consciousness::quality of awareness — distinctive knowing that arises in dependence on the meeting of eye and form, ear and sound, nose and odor, tongue and taste, body and tangible object, mind and mind object [viññāṇa]| arises; dependent on consciousness, |name and form::mentality and materiality—the integrated structure of mental capacities (intention, attention, contact, feeling, perception) and physical form that together constitute and sustain an individual being [nāmarūpa]| arise; dependent on name and form, the |six sense bases::The six internal sense bases—eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind—are the faculties that enable sensory contact and experience. They are not the physical organs themselves, but the functional conditions that enable consciousness to meet an object [saḷāyatana]| arise; dependent on the six sense bases, |contact::sense impingement, raw experience, touch [phassa]| arises; dependent on contact, |felt experience::pleasant, neutral, or painful sensation, feeling, second of the five aggregates [vedanā]| arises; dependent on felt experience, |craving::wanting, yearning, longing, attachment, lit. thirst [taṇha]| arises; dependent on craving, |clinging::grasping, acquiring, appropriating, taking possession, identifying; fuel for fire; lit. taking near [upādāna]| arises; dependent on clinging, |existence::being, becoming; continued conditional existence, the karmically conditioned mode of being that leads to future rebirth [bhava]| arises; dependent on existence, |birth::rebirth, conception, coming into existence [jāti]| arises; dependent on birth, aging and death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, displeasure, and despair arise. Thus is the arising of this whole mass of suffering. With the |complete fading away and ending::remainderless dispassion and cessation [asesavirāganirodha]| of ignorance comes the ending of intentional constructs ... Thus is the ending of this whole mass of suffering.’ This is the noble principle that has been clearly seen and thoroughly penetrated with wisdom.
Yato kho, gahapati, ariyasāvakassa imāni pañca bhayāni verāni vūpasantāni honti, imehi ca catūhi sotāpattiyaṅgehi samannāgato hoti, ayañcassa ariyo ñāyo paññāya sudiṭṭho hoti suppaṭividdho, so ākaṅkhamāno attanāva attānaṁ byākareyya: ‘khīṇanirayomhi khīṇatiracchānayoni khīṇapettivisayo khīṇāpāyaduggativinipāto; sotāpannohamasmi avinipātadhammo niyato sambodhiparāyaṇo’”ti.
Householder, when the five perilous animosities have subsided for a disciple of the Noble Ones, they are endowed with these four factors of stream-entry, and they have clearly seen and thoroughly penetrated with wisdom the noble principle, they may, if they wish, declare of themselves: ‘I am one finished with rebirth in hell, finished with animal rebirth, finished with the ghost realm, done with states of misery, bad destinations and states of suffering; I am a stream-enterer, not liable to states of suffering, fixed in destiny, with full awakening as my destination.’”