5-48-17 Oghavaggo | Samyutta

XVII. Floods

(Removal of Lust Version)

169 (1)–177 (9) Floods, Etc.

178 (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 faith … … the faculty of wisdom,

which has as its final goal:

the removal of lust,
the removal of hatred,
the removal of delusion.

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.

(All to be elaborated by way of the 5 faculties having as their final goal the removal of lust, the removal of hatred, the removal of delusion.)