Purābheda Sutta | Sn IV-10
10. Purābheda Sutta
Before Breaking Up
854. What kind of knowledge and what kind of conduct, make a person worthy to be called a Stilled one?
- (one freed from defilements).
O Gotama Buddha, may I ask of you: Enlighten us on who is a Pacified One. (1)
855. (Said the Buddha):
He who has rooted out craving before his body breaks up, who does not have learning on the past (craving and delusion),
who does not count as a lusting one or as angry one in the middle period (of the present existence) and who has no reliance on the future (as craving and delusion, might have it),
- (that kind of person I call a Stilled One). (2)
856. He is without anger, without fear, without boastfulness, (about own conduct) without remorse; he speaks weighed words, he is calm and subdued; he is restrained in speech, and wise.
- (That kind of person I call a Stilled One). (3)
857. He is not enchanted with future existence; he has no remorse regarding his past.
On the present perceptions that contact brings, he keeps a detached outlook. He is not carried away by (the 62 kinds of false views).
- (That kind of person I call a Stilled One). (4)
858. He recoils from misdeeds, he does not employ hypocrisy for self-gain, he has no sensual desires; he knows no envy.
Free from impudence and any reprehensible conduct, he is averse to backbiting.
- (That kind of person I call a Stilled One). (5)
859. He is not depraved by pleasures, not haughty, gentle and keenly perceptive, he does not place faith in any doctrines (other than the Buddha's Teaching). Desires are extinct in him.
- (That kind of person I call a Stilled One). (6)
860. He does not learn the Buddha's Teaching for material gain, and he does not mind a lack of material gains.
Never antagonistic, never yielding to craving, he is never a slave to the pleasures of the stomach.
- (That kind of person I call a Stilled One). (7)
861. Neutral in attitude towards all things, mindful at all times, he does not make comparisons of himself as against any other, such and such is my equal, or is my superior, or is my inferior, no profusion of passions being possible with him,
- (That kind of person I call a Stilled One). (8)
862. No learning whatever (either by way of craving or of delusion), knowing clearly the Dhamma, he does not depend, (on craving and delusion), craving being totally absent, he holds no false views either of Eternalism or Annihilism.
- (That kind of person I call a Stilled One). (9)
863. Him I call the Stilled One who cares not for sensuality, who has freed himself of the (4) binding knots, and who has overcome all attachments. (10)
864. He has no children, no livestock, no fields, no house, and no land. He does not believe either in the Eternalist view, or the Annihilist view.
- (That kind of person I call a Stilled One). (11)
865. When someone is not free from defilements, people in general, and monks and Arahants in particular, are wont to refer to him (as one who is lustful or deluded).
But the Arahant is not one who is led astray by those defilements (craving and delusion), so he is unmoved by any accusation, that might be hurled against him.
- (That kind of person I call a Stilled One). (12)
866. Devoid of desires, he is also without envy; he does not claim himself as belonging to the Noble Ones; nor does he claim equality with others, nor set himself up as one of the inferior class.
Being of a non-speculative wisdom, he does not indulge in idle speculation (bearing on craving and delusion)
- (That kind of person I call a Stilled One). (13)
867. He does not covet a thing, so he is not troubled, by losses he may have suffered. He maintains equanimity towards all things in life (never liking or disliking).
- (That kind of person I call a Stilled One). (14)
End of the Tenth Purābheda Sutta