Spiritual Community of the True Followers of the Path shown by The Awakened One
“In this community of True Followers of the Path shown by The Awakened One or there are True Followers of the Path shown by The Awakened One who are arahants, whose mental effluents are ended, who have reached fulfillment, done the task, laid down the burden, attained the true goal, totally destroyed the fetter of becoming, and who are released through right gnosis: such are the True Followers of the Path shown by The Awakened One in this community of True Followers of the Path shown by The Awakened One.
“In this community of True Followers of the Path shown by The Awakened One there are True Followers of the Path shown by The Awakened One who, with the total ending of the first set of five fetters, are due to be reborn [in the Pure Abodes], there to be totally unbound, never again to return from that world: such are the monks in this community of True Followers of the Path shown by The Awakened One.
“In this community of True Followers of the Path shown by The Awakened One there are True Followers of the Path shown by The Awakened One who, with the total ending of [the first] three fetters, and with the attenuation of passion, aversion, & delusion, are once-returners, who β on returning only one more time to this world β will make an ending to stress: such are the True Followers of the Path shown by The Awakened One in this community of True Followers of the Path shown by The Awakened One.
“In this community of True Followers of the Path shown by The Awakened One there are True Followers of the Path shown by The Awakened One who, with the total ending of [the first] three fetters, are stream-winners, steadfast, never again destined for states of woe, headed for self-awakening: such are the True Followers of the Path shown by The Awakened One in this community of True Followers of the Path shown by The Awakened One.”