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5. Arahanta Sutta
Discourse on the Arahat
Satti Vagga, Devata Samyutta, Sagatha Vagga Samyutta,
Samyutta Nikaya, Suttanta Pitaka

SOURCE: "FIVE SAMYUTTAS FROM SAGATHAVAGGA SAMYUTTA"
Translated by U Tin U (Myaung), Yangon
Edited by the Editorial Committee, Burma (Myanmar) Tipitaka Association, 1998
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Discourse on the Arahat

          25. (The deva said:)

           "The bhikkhu who is an arahat, who has accomplished the task (of Magga Practice), in whom the befuddling defilements are extinct, and who bears the last burden of existence (having no more rebirth), would such a bhikkhu say, ' I speak' or would he say ' I am spoken to?"

           (The Bhagava said:)

          " The bhikkhu who is an arahat, who has accomplished the task (of Magga Practice), in whom befuddling defilements are extinct, and who bears the last burden of existence, might say ' I speak', or might say ' I am spoken to'. Knowing and being skilled in the conventional terms of the world, he might use such terms merely as conventional terms."

          (The deva said:)

           "The bhikkhu-who is an arahat, who has accomplished the task (of Magga Practice), in whom the befuddling defilements are extinct, and who bears the last burden of existence, would such a bhikkhu say, out of conceit, ' I speak'. or would he say 'I am spoken to?"

           (The Bhagava said:)

           A bhikkhu who has given up conceit has no bonds; he has destroyed all bonds of conceit. Such a wise one has passed beyond all concepts of 'mine', 'I' and 'my Self' (being motivated by Craving, conceit and wrong view).
          Such a bhikkhu might say ' I speak', or might say 'I am spoken to'.
          Knowing and being skilled in the conventional terms of the world, he might use such terms merely as conventional terms."

End of the Arahanta Sutta,
the fifth in this vagga.


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