vesārajja

'self-confidence' of a Buddha is fourfold.

He is confident:

  • 1. to have attained to a perfect Enlightenment of which it cannot be said that it omits anything essential to it;
  • 2. to have destroyed all cankers (āsava), leaving none that can be said to be undestroyed by him;
  • 3. that what were declared by him as obstacles to liberation are undeniably such;
  • 4. that his teaching fulfils its purpose of actually leading to final liberation from suffering.

See A.IV.8; VII.58; M.12.


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