[222] This was said by the Blessed One, said by the Arahant — so I have heard:
"Bhikkhus, there are these two Nibbāna-elements (nibbānadhātu). What two? The Nibbāna-element with residue remaining (sa-upādisesā nibbānadhātu) and the Nibbāna-element without residue remaining (anupādisesā nibbānadhātu).
"And what, bhikkhus, is the Nibbāna-element with residue remaining? Here, bhikkhus, a bhikkhu is an arahant (arahaṃ), one whose taints (āsava) are destroyed, who has lived the holy life, done what had to be done, laid down the burden, reached his own goal, utterly destroyed the fetters (saṃyojana) of existence, and is liberated through final knowledge (sammadaññā vimutto). His five faculties (indriya) still remain, and because these are unimpaired he experiences the agreeable and the disagreeable, he feels pleasure and pain (sukha–dukkha). It is his destruction of lust (rāga), destruction of hatred, and destruction of delusion that is called, bhikkhus, the Nibbāna-element with residue remaining.
"And what, bhikkhus, is the Nibbāna-element without residue remaining? Here, bhikkhus, a bhikkhu is an arahant, one whose taints are destroyed, who has lived the holy life, done what had to be done, laid down the burden, reached his own goal, utterly destroyed the fetters of existence, and is liberated through final knowledge. For him, bhikkhus, right here all that is felt (vedayita), not being delighted in, will become cool. This is called, bhikkhus, the Nibbāna-element without residue remaining.
"These, bhikkhus, are the two Nibbāna-elements."
The Blessed One spoke this meaning. In this connection it is said:
"These two Nibbāna-elements have been made known
by the One with Vision, the unattached, the Stable One (tādī):
for one element is here, pertaining to this present life,
with residue remaining, with the conduit to existence (bhavanetti) destroyed;
while that without residue remaining pertains to the hereafter,
wherein existences cease altogether.
Those who, having known this unconditioned (asaṅkhata) state,
their minds (citta) liberated with the conduit to existence destroyed,
delighting in destruction through attaining the essence of the Dhamma —
those Stable Ones have abandoned all existences."
This meaning too was spoken by the Blessed One — so I have heard.
The seventh.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.