{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an4.5/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an4.5","id":"suttacentral_an4.5","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an4.5/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"\u201cThese four individuals are found in the world. What four? An individual who goes with the stream; an individual who goes against the stream; a steadfast individual; and a brahmin who has crossed over, gone to the far shore, and stands on solid ground. And who is the individual who goes with the stream? It\u2019s an individual who indulges in sensual pleasures and does bad deeds. This is called an individual who goes with the stream. And who is the individual who goes against the stream? It\u2019s an individual who doesn\u2019t indulge in sensual pleasures or do bad deeds. They live the full and pure spiritual life in pain and sadness, weeping, with tearful faces. This is called an individual who goes against the stream. And who is the steadfast individual? It\u2019s an individual who, with the ending of the five lower fetters, is reborn spontaneously. They\u2019re extinguished there, and are not liable to return from that world. This is called a steadfast individual. And who is a brahmin who has crossed over, gone to the far shore, and stands on solid ground? It\u2019s an individual who realizes the undefiled freedom of heart and freedom by wisdom. And they live having realized it with their own insight in this very life due to the ending of defilements. This is called a brahmin who has crossed over, gone to the far shore, and stands on solid ground. These are the four individuals found in the world. All those people with unbridled sensuality, not free of lust, enjoying sensual pleasures in this life: again and again, they return to birth and old age; those who go with the stream are sunk in craving. So the attentive in this life, <j>with mindfulness established, don\u2019t take part in sensual pleasures and bad deeds. In pain they\u2019d give up sensual pleasures: they call that individual <j>\u2018one who goes against the stream\u2019. Someone who\u2019s given up five corruptions, a perfect trainee, not liable to decline, who\u2019s mastered their mind, <j>with faculties immersed in sam\u0101dhi, that man is called \u2018steadfast\u2019. The sage who has comprehended all things, <j>high and low, cleared them and ended them, so they are no more; they\u2019ve completed the spiritual journey <j>and gone to the end of the world, they\u2019re called \u2018one who has gone beyond\u2019.\u201d","title":"With the Stream","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":383}