[589] At the moment of the path of once-returning (sakadāgāmimagga), right view (sammādiṭṭhi) in the sense of seeing … right concentration (sammāsamādhi) in the sense of non-distraction becomes dispassionate toward the gross fetter (saṃyojana) of sensual lust and the fetter of repulsion, toward the gross latent tendency (anusaya) of sensual lust and the latent tendency of repulsion; it becomes dispassionate toward the defilements (kilesa) that follow along with these and toward the aggregates, and it becomes dispassionate toward all external signs (nimitta). Dispassion (virāga) has dispassion as its object, has dispassion as its resort; it has arrived at dispassion, stands in dispassion, is established in dispassion. "Dispassion": there are two kinds of dispassion — Nibbāna is dispassion, and all dhammas arisen with Nibbāna as their object are also dispassion — thus it is dispassion. The seven co-arisen factors go to dispassion — thus dispassion is the path (magga). By this path the Buddhas and their disciples go to Nibbāna, the region not gone to before — thus it is the eightfold path. Among however many paths there are of the many ascetics and brahmins who profess other doctrines, this very noble eightfold path is the foremost, the best, the liberating, the highest, and the most excellent — thus, of paths, the eightfold is the best.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.