[470] At Sāvatthī. "Bhikkhus, forms (rūpā) are impermanent, changing, becoming otherwise; sounds are impermanent, changing, becoming otherwise; odors are impermanent, changing, becoming otherwise; tastes are impermanent, changing, becoming otherwise; tactile objects are impermanent, changing, becoming otherwise; mental phenomena (dhammā) are impermanent, changing, becoming otherwise.
"Bhikkhus, one who has faith in these teachings and resolves upon them thus is called a faith-follower (saddhānusārī): one who has entered the fixed course of rightness (sammattaniyāma), entered the plane of the good person (sappurisabhūmi), and transcended the plane of the worldling (puthujjana). He is incapable of doing any deed by which, having done it, he might be reborn in hell, in the animal realm, or in the domain of ghosts (pittivisaya); and he is incapable of passing away without having realized the fruit of stream-entry (sotāpattiphala).
"Bhikkhus, one for whom these teachings are accepted thus, after being pondered to a sufficient degree with wisdom, is called a Dhamma-follower (dhammānusārī): one who has entered the fixed course of rightness, entered the plane of the good person, and transcended the plane of the worldling. He is incapable of doing any deed by which, having done it, he might be reborn in hell, in the animal realm, or in the domain of ghosts; and he is incapable of passing away without having realized the fruit of stream-entry.
"Bhikkhus, one who knows and sees these teachings thus is called a stream-enterer (sotāpanna), no longer subject to the states of deprivation, fixed in destiny, with awakening as his destination."
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.