sn12.68:13.1 “Then Venerable Nārada is a perfected one, with defilements ended.”
sn12.68:13.2 “I have truly seen clearly with right wisdom that the cessation of continued existence is extinguishment. Yet I am not a perfected one.
sn12.68:13.3 Suppose there was a well on a desert road that had neither rope nor bucket.
sn12.68:13.4 Then along comes a person struggling in the oppressive heat, weary, thirsty, and parched.
sn12.68:13.5 They’d know that there was water, but they couldn’t physically touch it.
sn12.68:13.6 In the same way, I have truly seen clearly with right wisdom that the cessation of continued existence is extinguishment. Yet I am not a perfected one.”