9.
The Second Discourse on the Brick Hall
1005.
Seated to one side, the venerable Ānanda said this to the Blessed One:
"Venerable sir, the monk named Asoka has died;
what is his destination, what is his future life?
Venerable sir, the nun named Asokā has died, etc.
Venerable sir, the lay follower named Asoka has died, etc.
Venerable sir, the female lay follower named Asokā has died;
what is her destination, what is her future life?"
"Ānanda, the monk Asoka, who has died, through the elimination of the mental corruptions realised by his own direct knowledge, in this very life, the liberation of mind and the liberation by wisdom that are free from mental corruptions and, having entered upon them, dwelt in them...
"This, Ānanda, is that mirror of the Teaching, that exposition of the Teaching, possessed of which a noble disciple, if he wishes, may declare of himself: 'For me, hell is eliminated, the animal realm is eliminated, the sphere of ghosts is eliminated, the realm of misery, the unfortunate realm, the nether world is eliminated; I am a stream-enterer, no longer subject to fall into lower realms, fixed in destiny, heading for the highest enlightenment.'" The ninth.