1 Then a mendicant went up to the Buddha, bowed, sat down to one side, and said to him:
1 Atha kho aññataro bhikkhu yena bhagavā tenupasaṅkami; upasaṅkamitvā bhagavantaṁ abhivādetvā ekamantaṁ nisīdi. Ekamantaṁ nisinno kho so bhikkhu bhagavantaṁ etadavoca:
2 “Sir, they speak of the one called ‘a trainee’. How is a trainee defined?” “They train, mendicant, that’s why they’re called ‘a trainee’. What is their training? They train in the higher ethics, the higher mind, and the higher wisdom. They train, that’s why they’re called ‘a trainee’.
2 “‘Sekho, sekho’ti, bhante, vuccati. Kittāvatā nu kho, bhante, sekho hotī”ti? “Sikkhatīti kho, bhikkhu, tasmā sekhoti vuccati. Kiñca sikkhati? Adhisīlampi sikkhati, adhicittampi sikkhati, adhipaññampi sikkhati. Sikkhatīti kho, bhikkhu, tasmā sekhoti vuccatīti.
3 As a trainee trains, following the straight road, first they know about ending; enlightenment follows in the same lifetime.
3 Sekhassa sikkhamānassa, ujumaggānusārino; Khayasmiṁ paṭhamaṁ ñāṇaṁ, tato aññā anantarā.
4 Then the knowledge comes such a one, freed through enlightenment, with the end of the fetters of continued existence: ‘My freedom is unshakable.’”
4 Tato aññāvimuttassa, ñāṇaṁ ve hoti tādino; Akuppā me vimuttīti, bhavasaṁyojanakkhaye”ti. Pañcamaṁ.
