3.
The Discourse on Autumn
95.
"Just as, monks, in the autumn season, when the sky is clear and free from clouds, the sun ascending into the sky, having dispelled all the darkness in space, shines and burns and is brilliant.
"So too, monks, when the stainless, spotless eye of the Teaching arises in a noble disciple, together with the arising of vision, monks, three mental fetters are abandoned by the noble disciple - identity view, sceptical doubt, adherence to moral rules and austerities.
"Then further, he emerges from two mental states: from covetousness and from anger. He, quite secluded from sensual pleasures, secluded from unwholesome mental states, enters and dwells in the first meditative absorption, which is accompanied by applied thought and sustained thought, with rapture and happiness born of seclusion. If, monks, at that time the noble disciple were to die, there is no mental fetter by which the noble disciple, being fettered, would come back again to this world." The third.