And who is the steadfast individual? It’s an individual who, with the ending of the five lower fetters, is reborn spontaneously. They’re extinguished there, and are not liable to return from that world. This is called a steadfast individual.

And who is a brahmin who has crossed over, gone to the far shore, and stands on solid ground? It’s an individual who realizes the undefiled freedom of heart and freedom by wisdom. And they live having realized it with their own insight in this very life due to the ending of defilements. This is called a brahmin who has crossed over, gone to the far shore, and stands on solid ground. These are the four individuals found in the world.

All those people with unbridled sensuality, not free of lust, enjoying sensual pleasures in this life: again and again, they return to birth and old age; those who go with the stream are sunk in craving.

So the attentive in this life, <j>with mindfulness established, don’t take part in sensual pleasures and bad deeds. In pain they’d give up sensual pleasures: they call that individual <j>‘one who goes against the stream’.

Someone who’s given up five corruptions, a perfect trainee, not liable to decline, who’s mastered their mind, <j>with faculties immersed in samādhi, that man is called ‘steadfast’.