Reading guide
A confirmed pairing, not merely a guessed one
Confirmed by direct reading, this discourse validates the honest expectation this project's own SN 48.32 stated without assuming: SN 48.32 (stream-enterer) and this discourse (arahant) form a direct pair for the five feeling faculties, exactly mirroring Vagga 3's own SN 48.26/27 pair for the six sense faculties — read fresh from this discourse's own source rather than taken for granted in advance.
The identical distinguishing phrase and closing formula
Confirmed by direct reading, this discourse shares its own distinguishing phrase (“anupādāvimutto,” “freed by not grasping”) and its own closing full arahant formula (“khīṇāsavo vusitavā katakaraṇīyo … sammadaññāvimutto”) with SN 48.27's own text, word for word — applied here to the five feeling faculties instead of the six sense faculties.
A structural pattern now confirmed across two vaggas
This project's own running observation: the stream-enterer/arahant pairing, first met in this saṃyutta's own Vagga 1 (SN 48.2-5), then Vagga 3 (SN 48.26-27), and now Vagga 4 (SN 48.32-33), appears to be a structural device this saṃyutta reuses for each new faculty category — though this project will keep confirming rather than assuming this for any later vagga.
Key terms
The text
§1“Mendicants, there are these five faculties. What five? The faculties of pleasure, pain, happiness, sadness, and equanimity. A mendicant comes to be freed by not grasping after truly understanding these five faculties’ origin, disappearance, gratification, drawback, and escape. Such a mendicant is called a perfected one, with defilements ended, who has completed the spiritual journey, done what had to be done, laid down the burden, achieved their heart’s goal, utterly ended the fetter of continued existence, and is rightly freed through enlightenment.”
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