A Perfected One (SN48.33)

Linked Discourses 48.33

4. The Pleasure Faculty

A Perfected One

“Mendicants, there are these five faculties.

What five?

The faculties of pleasure, pain, happiness, sadness, and equanimity.

A mendicant comes to be freed by not grasping after truly understanding these five faculties’ origin, disappearance, gratification, drawback, and escape.

Such a mendicant is called a perfected one, with defilements ended, who has completed the spiritual journey, done what had to be done, laid down the burden, achieved their heart’s goal, utterly ended the fetter of continued existence, and is rightly freed through enlightenment.”