The two elements of in-his-life Nibbāna

 

 

“There are two elements of Nibbāna. What two? There is the
element of Nibbāna with result of past clinging still left, and the element
of Nibbdna without result of past clinging left.”

 

“What is the element of Nibbāna with result of past clinging still left? Here a bhikkhu is an arahant with taints exhausted, who has lived out the life, done what was to be done, laid down the burden, reached the highest goal, destroyed the fetters of being, and who is completely
liberated through final knowledge. His five sense-faculties remain,
owing to the presence of which he still encounters the agreeable
and disagreeable, still experiences the pleasant and painful.
It is
exhaustion of lust, of hate, and of delusion in him that is called the element of Nibbāna with result of past clinging still left.”

 

“And what is the element of Nibbāna without results of past clinging left?

Here a bhikkhu is an arahant who has lived out the life…. and is completely liberated through final knowledge. All in him that is felt will, since he does not relish it, become cool here in this very life: this is called the element of Nibbāna without result of past clinging left.”   

 

Ittivutaka 44

 

 

Plus Pari-Nibbāna (see the Parinibbanasutta)