Itivuttaka — Assim Foi Dito — 96 — Yoked to Sensual Pleasures

1This was said by the Buddha, the Perfected One: that is what I heard.

2“Mendicants, one yoked to both sensual pleasures and rebirth is a returner, who comes back to this place. One unyoked from sensual pleasures but still yoked to rebirth is a non-returner, who comes not back to this place. One unyoked from both sensual pleasures and rebirth is a perfected one, who has ended defilements.”

3The Buddha spoke this matter. On this it is said:

4“Yoked to both sensual pleasures
and the desire to be reborn in a future life;
sentient beings continue to transmigrate,
with ongoing birth and death.

5Those who’ve given up sensual pleasures
without attaining the end of defilements,
and are still yoked to being reborn,
are said to be non-returners.

6Those who have cut off doubt,
and ended conceit and future lives,
they’re the ones in this world <j>who’ve truly crossed over,
having reached the ending of defilements.”

7This too is a matter that was spoken by the Blessed One: that is what I heard.