iti57:0.1So It Was Said 57
iti57:0.2The Book of the Threes
iti57:0.3Chapter One
iti57:0.4Defilements (2nd)
iti57:1.1This was said by the Buddha, the Perfected One: that is what I heard.
iti57:2.1“Mendicants, there are these three defilements.
iti57:2.2What three?
iti57:2.3The defilements of sensuality, desire to be reborn, and ignorance.
iti57:2.4These are the three defilements.”
iti57:2.5The Buddha spoke this matter.
iti57:2.6On this it is said:
iti57:3.1“One who has ended the defilement of sensuality,
iti57:3.2whose ignorance has faded away,
iti57:3.3and whose desire to be reborn is finished—
iti57:3.4liberated, free of attachments,
iti57:3.5they bear their final body,
iti57:3.6having vanquished Māra with his legions.”
iti57:4.1This too is a matter that was spoken by the Blessed One: that is what I heard.