Reading guide
The predicted companion, confirmed a second time
Confirmed by direct reading, this discourse's own title, “Dutiyaarahantasutta” (“A Perfected One, Second Version”), is exactly the companion SN 48.4's own title predicted — this project's own pattern-recognition, first confirmed at the stream-enterer pair (SN 48.2-3), now holds a second time running.
The identical expansion, mirroring the stream-enterer pair exactly
This project's own direct comparison confirms the EXACT same structural move already seen once: origin (samudaya) and disappearance (atthaṅgama) are added before the same gratification, drawback, and escape already met at SN 48.4, producing a fivefold lens applied this time to arahantship rather than stream-entry.
A vagga's own emerging structure, confirmed rather than assumed
Confirmed by direct reading across five discourses now, this vagga's own opening pattern is: a plain statement (SN 48.1), then two pairs, each pair moving from a threefold to a fivefold lens, applied first to stream-entry (SN 48.2-3) and then to arahantship (SN 48.4-5) — this project will confirm, not assume, whether this pairing structure continues further.
Key terms
The text
§1“Mendicants, there are these five faculties. What five? The faculties of faith, energy, mindfulness, immersion, and wisdom. 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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