an2.34:3.1 “Excellent, worthy Gotama! … From this day forth, may the worthy Gotama remember me as a lay follower who has gone for refuge for life.”
an2.35:3.1 “In this world, the trainee and the adept,
an2.35:3.2 are worthy of offerings dedicated to the gods.
an2.35:3.3 They are sincere in body,
an2.35:3.4 speech, and mind.
an2.35:3.5 This is the field for sponsors of sacrifice—
an2.35:3.6 what’s given here is very fruitful.”
an2.36:3.1 Who is an individual fettered externally?
an2.36:3.2 It’s a mendicant who is ethical, restrained in the monastic code, conducting themselves well and resorting for alms in suitable places. Seeing danger in the slightest fault, they keep the rules they’ve undertaken.
an2.36:3.3 They enter and remain in a certain peaceful state of freed mind.
an2.36:3.4 When their body breaks up, after death, they’re reborn in one of the orders of gods.
an2.36:3.5 When they pass away from there, they’re a non-returner, not coming back to this place.
an2.36:3.6 This is called an individual who is fettered externally, a non-returner, who does not come back to this place.
an2.37:3.1 “Worthy Kaccāna, is there anyone in the world who has gone beyond the insistence on sensual desire and the insistence on views?”
an2.37:3.2 “There is, brahmin.”
an2.38:3.1 When this was said, the brahmin Kandarāyana got up from his seat, placed his robe over one shoulder, and bowed with his head to the feet of the young mendicants, saying,
an2.38:3.2 “The good fellows are elders, at the stage of the elder;
an2.38:3.3 we are youths, at the stage of youth.



