iti.44 Itivuttaka

Elements of Extinguishment

This was said by the Buddha, the Perfected One: that is what I heard.
“There are, mendicants, these two elements of extinguishment.
What two?
The element of extinguishment with something left over, and the element of extinguishment with nothing left over.
And what is the element of extinguishment with something left over?
It’s when a mendicant is a perfected one, with defilements ended, who has completed the spiritual journey, done what had to be done, laid down the burden, achieved their own true goal, utterly ended the fetters of rebirth, and is rightly freed through enlightenment.
Their five sense faculties still remain. So long as their senses have not gone they continue to experience the agreeable and disagreeable, to feel pleasure and pain.
The ending of greed, hate, and delusion in them
is called the element of extinguishment with something left over.
And what is the element of extinguishment with nothing left over?
It’s when a mendicant is a perfected one, with defilements ended, who has completed the spiritual journey, done what had to be done, laid down the burden, achieved their own true goal, utterly ended the fetters of rebirth, and is rightly freed through enlightenment.
For them, everything that’s felt, being no longer relished, will become cool right here.
This is called the element of extinguishment with nothing left over.
These are the two elements of extinguishment.”
The Buddha spoke this matter.
On this it is said:
“These two elements of extinguishment have been made clear
by the seer, the unattached, the poised.
One element pertains to the present life—
what is left over when the conduit to rebirth has ended.
What has nothing left over pertains to what follows this life,
where all states of existence cease.
Those who have fully understood the unconditioned state—
their minds freed, the conduit to rebirth ended—
attained to the heart of the Dhamma, they delight in ending,
the poised ones have given up all states of existence.”