9.
The Discourse on the Benefits of Training
46.
This was said by the Blessed One, said by the Worthy One, thus have I heard:
"Monks, dwell with training as your benefit, with wisdom as higher, with liberation as core, with mindfulness as authority. For those monks dwelling with training as their benefit, with wisdom as higher, with liberation as core, with mindfulness as authority, one of two fruits is to be expected: final liberating knowledge in this very life; or, if there is a residue of clinging, non-returning." The Blessed One said this meaning. Therein this is said:
Him indeed, the sage, bearing his final body, who has abandoned Māra, I call one who has gone beyond ageing.
Having overcome Māra together with his army, monks, become ones who have gone beyond birth and death."
This meaning too was spoken by the Blessed One, thus have I heard. The ninth.