Friends:
Which 5 Mental Abilities give Final Knowledge?
The Blessed Buddha once said:
Bhikkhus, there are these five abilities. What five?
The ability of Faith (saddhā)
The ability of Energy (viriya)
The ability of Awareness (sati)
The ability of Concentration (samādhi)
The ability of Understanding (pañña)
When a Bhikkhu has understood
as they really are the gratification,
the danger, and the escape in the case of these five abilities, then
this Bhikkhu is released by
non-clinging, then he is called an Arahat,
one whose mental fermentations are eliminated, who has completed
the Noble life, who has done what should be done, put down the task,
reached his own goal, utterly broken the chains of ever new becoming,
one who is completely liberated through final knowledge...
Source of reference
(edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha.
Samyutta Nikāya.
Book [V: 194]
48 The Mental Abilities: 4 Arahat..
On The Five Mental Abilities (indriya) see:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Final_Abilities.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Origin_of_Abilities.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Finding_the_Abilities.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Fruits_of_the_Abilities.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Analysis_of_the_Abilities.htm
For Details on the 3 or 4 Mental Fermentations (āsava) see:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Naturally_Radiant.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/a/aasava.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/The_Proximate_Cause.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Cause_of_Ignorance.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Three_Fermentations.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Freed_from_Fermentation.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_9_Supremes_Explained.htm
