Pañcaṅgasutta — Reader

Five Factors

Pañcaṅgasutta

“Mendicants, in this teaching and training a mendicant who has given up five factors and possesses five factors is called consummate, accomplished, a supreme person. And how has a mendicant given up five factors? It’s when a mendicant has given up sensual desire, ill will, dullness and drowsiness, restlessness and remorse, and doubt.

“Pañcaṅgavippahīno, bhikkhave, bhikkhu pañcaṅgasamannāgato imasmiṁ dhammavinaye ‘kevalī vusitavā uttamapuriso’ti vuccati. Kathañca, bhikkhave, bhikkhu pañcaṅgavippahīno hoti? Idha, bhikkhave, bhikkhuno kāmacchando pahīno hoti, byāpādo pahīno hoti, thinamiddhaṁ pahīnaṁ hoti, uddhaccakukkuccaṁ pahīnaṁ hoti, vicikicchā pahīnā hoti.

That’s how a mendicant has given up five factors. And how does a mendicant have five factors? It’s when a mendicant has the entire spectrum of an adept’s ethics, immersion, wisdom, freedom, and knowledge and vision of freedom.

Evaṁ kho, bhikkhave, bhikkhu pañcaṅgavippahīno hoti. Kathañca, bhikkhave, bhikkhu pañcaṅgasamannāgato hoti? Idha, bhikkhave, bhikkhu asekhena sīlakkhandhena samannāgato hoti, asekhena samādhikkhandhena samannāgato hoti, asekhena paññākkhandhena samannāgato hoti, asekhena vimuttikkhandhena samannāgato hoti, asekhena vimuttiñāṇadassanakkhandhena samannāgato hoti.

That’s how a mendicant has five factors. In this teaching and training a mendicant who has given up five factors and possesses five factors is called consummate, accomplished, a supreme person. Sensual desire, ill will, dullness and drowsiness,

Evaṁ kho, bhikkhave, bhikkhu pañcaṅgasamannāgato hoti. Pañcaṅgavippahīno kho, bhikkhave, bhikkhu pañcaṅgasamannāgato imasmiṁ dhammavinaye ‘kevalī vusitavā uttamapuriso’ti vuccati. Kāmacchando ca byāpādo, thinamiddhañca bhikkhuno;

restlessness, and doubt are not found in a mendicant at all. That sort are accomplished in an adept’s ethics,

Uddhaccaṁ vicikicchā ca, sabbasova na vijjati. Asekhena ca sīlena, asekhena samādhinā;

an adept’s immersion, and freedom and knowledge. Possessing these five factors, and rid of five factors,

Vimuttiyā ca sampanno, ñāṇena ca tathāvidho. Sa ve pañcaṅgasampanno, pañca aṅge vivajjayaṁ;

in this teaching and training they’re called ‘consummate’.”

Imasmiṁ dhammavinaye, kevalī iti vuccatī”ti. Dutiyaṁ.