Dighanikaya 2.248_7

2.248_7

Vusitanti vutthaṃ parivutthaṃ. Brahmacariyanti maggabrahmacariyaṃ. Puthujjanakalyāṇakena hi saddhiṃ satta sekkhā brahmacariyavāsaṃ vasanti nāma, khīṇāsavo vutthavāso, tasmā so attano brahmacariyavāsaṃ paccavekkhanto vusitaṃ brahmacariyanti pajānāti. Kataṃ karaṇīyanti catūsu saccesu catūhi maggehi pariññāpahānasacchikiriyābhāvanāvasena soḷasavidhaṃ kiccaṃ niṭṭhāpitaṃ. Tena tena maggena pahātabbakilesā pahīnā, dukkhamūlaṃ samucchinnanti attho. Puthujjanakalyāṇakādayo hi taṃ kiccaṃ karonti, khīṇāsavo katakaraṇīyo. Tasmā so attano karaṇīyaṃ paccavekkhanto kataṃ karaṇīyanti pajānāti. Nāparaṃ itthattāyāti idāni puna itthabhāvāya evaṃ soḷasakiccabhāvāya kilesakkhayabhāvāya vā kattabbaṃ maggabhāvanākiccaṃ me natthīti pajānāti. Atha vā itthattāyāti itthabhāvato imasmā evaṃ pakārā. Idāni vattamānakhandhasantānā aparaṃ khandhasantānaṃ mayhaṃ natthi. Ime pana pañcakkhandhā pariññātā tiṭṭhanti chinnamūlakā rukkhā viya, te carimakacittanirodhena anupādāno viya jātavedo nibbāyissanti apaṇṇattikabhāvañca gamissantīti pajānāti.

"Lived" means lived, completely lived. "The holy life" means the holy life of the path. For seven trainees, along with the virtuous worldling, are said to live the holy life, whereas the one whose taints are destroyed is one who has lived the life; therefore, reflecting on his own living of the holy life, he understands: "The holy life has been lived." "Done is what was to be done" means: the sixteenfold task in regard to the four truths by way of the four paths—by way of full understanding, abandoning, realizing, and developing—has been completed. The meaning is that the defilements to be abandoned by this and that path have been abandoned, the root of suffering has been eradicated. For the virtuous worldling and others perform that task, whereas the one whose taints are destroyed has done what was to be done. Therefore, reflecting on what was to be done by himself, he understands: "Done is what was to be done." "No further for this state of being" means: he understands, "Now there is no further task of path development for me to be done for this state of being, for such a state of sixteenfold tasks, or for the state of the destruction of defilements." Alternatively, "for this state of being" means: from this state of being, from this manner. "There is no further continuum of aggregates for me beyond this present continuum of aggregates. Rather, these five aggregates stand fully understood like trees whose roots are severed; with the cessation of the final consciousness, they will be extinguished like a fire without fuel and will arrive at an indescribable state," so he understands.