“Mendicants, these four people are found in the world. What four?

One person hasn’t given up the lower fetters, the fetters for getting reborn, or the fetters for getting a continued existence.
One person has given up the lower fetters, but not the fetters for getting reborn, or the fetters for getting a continued existence.
One person has given up the lower fetters and the fetters for getting reborn, but not the fetters for getting a continued existence.
One person has given up the lower fetters, the fetters for getting reborn, and the fetters for getting a continued existence.

What person hasn’t given up the lower fetters, the fetters for getting reborn, or the fetters for getting a continued existence? A once-returner. This is the person who hasn’t given up the lower fetters, the fetters for getting reborn, or the fetters for getting a continued existence.

What person has given up the lower fetters, but not the fetters for getting reborn, or the fetters for getting a continued existence? One heading upstream, going to the Akaniṭṭha realm.

What person has given up the lower fetters and the fetters for getting reborn, but not the fetters for getting a continued existence? One extinguished between one life and the next.

What person has given up the lower fetters, the fetters for getting reborn, and the fetters for getting a continued existence? A perfected one.

These are the four people found in the world.”

The Numbered Discourses

|_【4】 The Book of the Fours

|__C. The Third Fifty

|___IV. The Chapter on Persons

AN4.131 Fetters

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