Aṅguttara Nikāya — Discursos Numerados — 4.131 — Fetters

1“Mendicants, these four individuals are found in the world. What four?

2One individual hasn’t given up the lower fetters, the fetters for getting reborn, or the fetters for getting a continued existence.

3One individual has given up the lower fetters, but not the fetters for getting reborn, or the fetters for getting a continued existence.

4One individual has given up the lower fetters and the fetters for getting reborn, but not the fetters for getting a continued existence.

5One individual has given up the lower fetters, the fetters for getting reborn, and the fetters for getting a continued existence.

6What individual hasn’t given up the lower fetters, the fetters for getting reborn, or the fetters for getting a continued existence? A once-returner. This is the individual who hasn’t given up the lower fetters, the fetters for getting reborn, or the fetters for getting a continued existence.

7What individual has given up the lower fetters, but not the fetters for getting reborn, or the fetters for getting a continued existence? One heading upstream, going to the Akaniṭṭha realm.

8What individual has given up the lower fetters and the fetters for getting reborn, but not the fetters for getting a continued existence? One extinguished between one life and the next.

9What individual has given up the lower fetters, the fetters for getting reborn, and the fetters for getting a continued existence? A perfected one.

10These are the four individuals found in the world.”