Again from the Pali-English Dictionary: “Freedom from the ‘Āsavas’ constitutes Arahantship,d & the fight for the extinction of these āsavas forms one of the main duties of [a human].” On becoming liberated from the āsavas, the gradual training says, “When [your mind] is liberated, the knowledge arises: ‘It is liberated.’ One understands: ‘Birth is destroyed, the holy life has been lived, what had to be done has been done, there is nothing further beyond this.’” The Buddha also called this liberation a visible fruit of the holy life and said, “There is no other fruit of [the holy life] higher
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