5.
The First Eastern Monastery Discourse
515.
Thus have I heard -
On one occasion the Blessed One was dwelling at Sāvatthī in the Eastern Park, in Migāramātā's mansion.
There the Blessed One addressed the monks thus:
"Because of having developed and cultivated how many faculties, monks, does a monk who has eliminated the mental corruptions declare the final liberating knowledge thus -
'I understand: Birth is eliminated, the holy life has been lived, what had to be done has been done, there is no more coming back to any state of being'?"
"The teachings have the Blessed One as their root, venerable sir, etc. "Because of having developed and cultivated one faculty, monks, a monk who has eliminated the mental corruptions declares the final liberating knowledge thus - 'I understand: Birth is eliminated, the holy life has been lived, what had to be done has been done, there is no more coming back to any state of being.' Which one? The wisdom faculty. For a wise noble disciple, monks, faith following that becomes established, energy following that becomes established, mindfulness following that becomes established, concentration following that becomes established. Because of having developed and cultivated this one faculty, monks, a monk who has eliminated the mental corruptions declares the final liberating knowledge thus - 'I understand: Birth is eliminated, the holy life has been lived, what had to be done has been done, there is no more coming back to any state of being.'" The fifth.