Early Monastic Buddhism v2.c34.s5.24

v2.c34.s5.24

Both these statements repeat in a slightly different form what has been stated by Vasumitra. The Andhakas and the Sailas hold that when a meditator realises within his innermost heart that the world is full of suffering and is not worth living, an exclamation like “aho vata dukkham”¹ spurts out of his mouth and then and there his insight (ñāṇa) penetrates into the first truth “idaṃ dukkhan ti” and as a result, he attains (pariyāpuṇāti) the Sotāpattimagga. So “dukkha” may be called an “āhāra” in respect of the realisation of the path as also an “aṅga” (limb) of the Sotāpattimagga.