Dighanikaya 33.331_2

33.331_2

‘‘Na idaṃ, ānanda, titthiyānaṃ adhivacanaṃ mama sāsane khīṇāsavassetaṃ adhivacanaṃ. Khīṇāsavo hi dasavassakāle parinibbuto puna dasavasso na hoti. Na kevalañca dasavassova, navavassopi…pe… ekavassopi. Na kevalañca ekavassova, dasamāsikopi…pe… ekamāsikopi. Ekadivasikopi. Ekamuhuttopi na hoti eva. Kasmā? Puna paṭisandhiyā abhāvā. Nibbīsādīsupi eseva nayo. Iti bhagavā mama sāsane khīṇāsavassetaṃ adhivacana’’nti –

“Ānanda, this is not a designation of sectarians; this is a designation of one who has destroyed the taints in my Dispensation. For when one who has destroyed the taints attains final Nibbāna at the time of ten years, he is not one of ten years again. And not only is he not of ten years; he is not even of nine years… and so on… not even of one year. And not only is he not of one year; he is not even of ten months… and so on… not even of one month, not even of one day, not even of one moment. Why? Because of the absence of rebirth-linking again. The same method applies in the case of ‘free of twenty’ and so on. Thus, the Blessed One, having said: ‘In my Dispensation, this is a designation of one who has destroyed the taints,’—