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that beings, when body breaks up after death, are reborn in the Happy Lot, in the Heaven World. Such, monks, are the three successes.

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§ 2. To Reach Perfection in Life is Dhamma

1. There are these three perfections.

2. Perfection in body, speech and mind.

3. And of what sort is perfection in mind ?

4. By the destruction of the asavas, realizing in this very life himself, knowing it thoroughly—the heart’s release, the release by insight which is free from the asavas, having attained it abides therein. This is called “perfection in mind.” These are the three bodily perfections.

5. There are other perfections. The Buddha explained them to Subhuti.

6. S UBHUTI : What is a Bodhisattva’s perfection of giving ?

7. T HE L ORD : Here a Bodhisattva, his thoughts associated with the knowledge of all modes, gives gifts, i.e., inward or outward things, and, having made them common to all beings, he dedicates them to supreme enlightenment ; and also others he instigates thereto. But there is nowhere an apprehension of anything.

8. S UBHUTI : What is a Bodhisattva’s perfection of morality ?

9. T HE L ORD : He himself lives under the obligation of the ten ways of wholesome acting, and also others he instigates thereto.

10. S UBHUTI : What is a Bodhisattva’s perfection of patience ?

11. T HE L ORD : He himself becomes one who has achieved patience, and others also he instigates to patience.

12. S UBHUTI : What is a Bodhisattva’s perfection of vigour ?

13. T HE L ORD : He dwells persistently in the five perfections, and also others he instigates to do likewise.