7.
The Discourse on the Ardent
34.
This was said by the Blessed One, said by the Worthy One, thus have I heard:
"A monk who is not ardent, monks, who has no moral fear, is incapable of highest enlightenment, incapable of Nibbāna, incapable of the achievement of the unsurpassed freedom from bondage. But a monk who is ardent, monks, who has moral fear, is capable of highest enlightenment, capable of Nibbāna, capable of the achievement of the unsurpassed freedom from bondage." The Blessed One said this meaning. Therein this is said:
Whoever is full of sloth and torpor, shameless, disrespectful;
Such a monk is incapable of touching the highest enlightenment.
Having cut the fetter of birth and ageing, right here one may touch the unsurpassed highest enlightenment."
This meaning too was spoken by the Blessed One, thus have I heard. The seventh.