What are the Fruits of the 5 Mental Abilities?
The Blessed Buddha once said:
Bhikkhus, there are these 5 mental abilities
(indriya). What five?
The ability of
Faith
(saddhā)
The ability of
Energy
(viriya)
The ability of
Awareness
(sati)
The ability of
Concentration
(samādhi)
The ability of
Understanding
(pañña)
These are the five abilities.
One who has completed
and fulfilled these five abilities is an
Arahat.
If they are weaker than that, then one is practising for the fruit
of
Arahat-ship; if still weaker, one is a
non-returner; if still weaker,
then one is practising for the reaching the fruit of
non-returning;
if still weaker, one is a
once-returner; if still weaker, one is training
for the realization of the fruit of
once-return; if still weaker, one
is a
stream-enterer; if still weaker, one is striving for
stream-entry!
Thus, Bhikkhus, one who activates the
5 abilities fully succeeds fully;
one who activates them partly succeeds partly. Therefore, I tell you:
These five abilities, Bhikkhus, are not barren of resulting fruition...
But, I tell you, that one in whom these five abilities are completely &
totally absent is an outsider, one who remains an
ordinary worldling!
On These Five Mental Abilities
(indriya) see:
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Final_Abilities.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Origin_of_Abilities.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Finding_the_Abilities.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Fruits_of_the_Abilities.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Analysis_of_the_Abilities.htm
Source of reference
(edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha.
Samyutta Nikāya.
Book [V:
202]
48 The Mental Abilities: 18 Training..
