[993] Endowed with seven factors, a bhikkhu is a keeper of the Vinaya (vinayadhara): he knows what is an offense (āpatti); he knows what is not an offense; he knows a light offense; he knows a heavy offense; he is virtuous, he dwells restrained by the restraint of the Pātimokkha, possessed of good conduct and resort, seeing danger in the slightest faults, he trains having undertaken the training rules; he is one who gains at will, without trouble, without difficulty, the four jhānas that pertain to the higher mind and are pleasant dwellings in this very life; and with the destruction of the taints (āsava), he enters and dwells in the taintless liberation of mind and liberation by wisdom, having realized it for himself with direct knowledge (abhiññā) in this very life.
Endowed with seven further factors, a bhikkhu is a keeper of the Vinaya: he knows what is an offense; he knows what is not an offense; he knows a light offense; he knows a heavy offense; he is greatly learned, a retainer of what he has heard, an accumulator of what he has heard — those teachings that are good in the beginning, good in the middle, and good in the end, which, with their meaning and their phrasing, proclaim the holy life entirely complete and pure: such teachings have been much learned by him, retained, rehearsed verbally, examined with the mind, and well penetrated by view; he is one who gains at will, without trouble, without difficulty, the four jhānas that pertain to the higher mind and are pleasant dwellings in this very life; and with the destruction of the taints, he enters and dwells in the taintless liberation of mind and liberation by wisdom, having realized it for himself with direct knowledge in this very life.
Endowed with seven further factors, a bhikkhu is a keeper of the Vinaya: he knows what is an offense; he knows what is not an offense; he knows a light offense; he knows a heavy offense; moreover, both Pātimokkhas have been well handed down to him in detail, well analyzed, well mastered in recitation, well determined, rule by rule and letter by letter; he is one who gains at will, without trouble, without difficulty, the four jhānas that pertain to the higher mind and are pleasant dwellings in this very life; and with the destruction of the taints, he enters and dwells in the taintless liberation of mind and liberation by wisdom, having realized it for himself with direct knowledge in this very life.
Endowed with seven further factors, a bhikkhu is a keeper of the Vinaya: he knows what is an offense; he knows what is not an offense; he knows a light offense; he knows a heavy offense; he recollects his manifold past abodes (pubbenivāsa), that is: one birth, two births, three births, four births, five births … ten births, twenty births, thirty births, forty births, fifty births, a hundred births, a thousand births, a hundred thousand births, many eons of world-contraction, many eons of world-expansion, many eons of world-contraction and expansion: "There I was of such a name, of such a clan, of such an appearance, of such nutriment, experiencing such pleasure and pain, of such a life span; passing away from there, I arose in such a place; there too I was of such a name, of such a clan, of such an appearance, of such nutriment, experiencing such pleasure and pain, of such a life span; passing away from there, I was reborn here" — thus with their aspects and particulars he recollects his manifold past abodes; with the divine eye (dibbacakkhu), purified and surpassing the human, he sees beings passing away and being reborn — inferior and superior, beautiful and ugly, fortunate and unfortunate — and he understands beings as faring according to their kamma: "These beings, sirs, endowed with bodily misconduct, endowed with verbal misconduct, endowed with mental misconduct, revilers of the noble ones, holding wrong view, undertaking action based on wrong view — with the breaking up of the body, after death, they have arisen in a state of deprivation, a bad destination, the lower realms, hell. But these beings, sirs, endowed with bodily good conduct, endowed with verbal good conduct, endowed with mental good conduct, not revilers of the noble ones, holding right view, undertaking action based on right view — with the breaking up of the body, after death, they have arisen in a good destination, a heavenly world." Thus with the divine eye, purified and surpassing the human, he sees beings passing away and being reborn — inferior and superior, beautiful and ugly, fortunate and unfortunate — and he understands beings as faring according to their kamma; and with the destruction of the taints, he enters and dwells in the taintless liberation of mind and liberation by wisdom, having realized it for himself with direct knowledge in this very life.
Endowed with seven factors, a keeper of the Vinaya shines: he knows what is an offense; he knows what is not an offense; he knows a light offense; he knows a heavy offense; he is virtuous … he trains having undertaken the training rules; he is one who gains at will, without trouble, without difficulty, the four jhānas that pertain to the higher mind and are pleasant dwellings in this very life; and with the destruction of the taints, he enters and dwells in the taintless liberation of mind and liberation by wisdom, having realized it for himself with direct knowledge in this very life.
Endowed with seven further factors, a keeper of the Vinaya shines: he knows what is an offense; he knows what is not an offense; he knows a light offense; he knows a heavy offense; he is greatly learned … well penetrated by view; he is one who gains at will, without trouble, without difficulty, the four jhānas that pertain to the higher mind and are pleasant dwellings in this very life; and with the destruction of the taints, he enters and dwells in the taintless liberation of mind and liberation by wisdom, having realized it for himself with direct knowledge in this very life.
Endowed with seven further factors, a keeper of the Vinaya shines: he knows what is an offense; he knows what is not an offense; he knows a light offense; he knows a heavy offense; moreover, both Pātimokkhas have been well handed down to him in detail, well analyzed, well mastered in recitation, well determined, rule by rule and letter by letter; he is one who gains at will, without trouble, without difficulty, the four jhānas that pertain to the higher mind and are pleasant dwellings in this very life; and with the destruction of the taints, he enters and dwells in the taintless liberation of mind and liberation by wisdom, having realized it for himself with direct knowledge in this very life.
Endowed with seven further factors, a keeper of the Vinaya shines: he knows what is an offense; he knows what is not an offense; he knows a light offense; he knows a heavy offense; he recollects his manifold past abodes … with the divine eye, purified and surpassing the human, he sees beings passing away and being reborn — inferior and superior, beautiful and ugly, fortunate and unfortunate — and he understands beings as faring according to their kamma … and with the destruction of the taints, he enters and dwells in the taintless liberation of mind and liberation by wisdom, having realized it for himself with direct knowledge in this very life.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.