5-48-12 Oghavaggo | Samyutta

XII. Floods

115 (1)–123 (9) Floods, Etc.

(To be elaborated parallel to 45:171–79.)

124 (10) Higher Fetters

Bhikkhus, there are these 5 higher fetters. What 5?

1) Lust for form,
2) lust for the formless,
3) conceit,
4) restlessness,
5) ignorance.

- These are the 5 higher fetters.

The 5 spiritual faculties are to be developed for direct knowledge of these 5 higher fetters, for the full understanding of them, for their utter destruction, for their abandoning.

What 5?

Here, Bhikkhus, a Bhikkhu develops the faculty of faiththe faculty of wisdom, which is based upon seclusion, dispassion, and cessation, maturing in release.

These 5 spiritual faculties are to be developed for direct knowledge of these 5 higher fetters, for the full understanding of them, for their utter destruction, for their abandoning.

Floods, bonds, kinds of clinging,
Knots, and underlying tendencies,
Cords of sensual pleasure, hindrances,
Aggregates, fetters lower and higher.