The History of Buddhist Thought c18.10

c18.10

With the destruction of all these, whether called fetters, depravities, or āsavas, the disciple is released (vimutta). He is released with complete freedom from grasping, knowing that all compounds are impermanent, all compounds are painful, all things are without a self, and that everything which has an origin has also a cessation.” 1 This is the emancipation of full knowledge (paññā), in which with the destruction of the āsavas all false views are destroyed, and with the knowledge of the Truths he has come to know things as they are. He is also said to be emancipated with release of heart or mind.² This is the actual experience of release obtained by the attainment of the trances or the eight releases. He is then said to be released in two ways (ubhato-bhāgavimutta), with the actual knowledge of his state, and with the ecstatic experience of being free from all bonds.³