Piṇḍolabhāradvājasutta

Suttapiṭaka · Saṁyuttanikāya · Mahāvaggasaṁyutta · Vol. 19 · Section 1009

[1009] "Bhikkhus, and these three faculties — in what do they culminate? They culminate in destruction. In the destruction of what? In the destruction of birth, aging, and death (jāti-jarā-maraṇa). Bhikkhus, it was by seeing the destruction of birth, aging, and death that the bhikkhu Piṇḍolabhāradvāja declared final knowledge (aññā): 'I understand: Destroyed is birth, the holy life has been lived, what had to be done has been done, there is no more coming to any state of being.'"

English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.