Early Monastic Buddhism v2.c35.s3.t5.102

v2.c35.s3.t5.102

The first three views raise the question of *samyakatvanyāma*, i.e., of persons who are destined to attain Nirvāṇa, and have no chance of being diverted from the Aryan path and going to lower states or joining heretical sects. An adept in *samyakatvanyāma* is the same as *sotāpattimaggapaṭipanna*, i.e., one after destroying the three *saṃyojanas* (impurities), viz., *sakkāyadiṭṭhi* (belief in a self), *sīlabbataparāmāsa* (belief in the efficacy of rituals) and *vicikicchā* (lack of faith in the Triratna) is on the way to sotāpattiphala. According to the scheme of the S., an adept remains sotāpattiphala-pratipannaka for the first fifteen moments, i.e., up to the development of mārge anvayajñāna-kṣānti,¹ when he completes the darśanamārga; from the 16th moment he is in bhāvanāmārga and is a srotaāpattiphalastha or srotaāpanna.