NOBLE DISCIPLE - အရိယသာ၀က


NOBLE DISCIPLE Ariyasᾱvaka

အရိယသာ၀က -                 အရိယာျဖစ္ေသာ တပည့္။

အရိယာတပည့္သုံးမ်ဳိးမွာ -
(၁) ပကတိသာ၀က - ပါရမီျဖည့္မႈ သီးျခားမရွိ၊ အရိယျဖစ္ခ်ိန္တန္၍ အရိယာျဖစ္ေသာ သူလုိငါလုိ ပုဂၢိဳလ္စုမ်ား၊
(၂) မဟာသာ၀က - ကမၻာတစ္သိန္း ပါရမီျဖည့္ရေသာ ရွစ္က်ိပ္ေသာ အရိယာတပည့္၊
(၃) အဂၢသာ၀က - တစ္သေခ်ၤႏွင့္ ကမၻာတစ္သိန္း ပါရမီျဖည့္ရေသာ အျမတ္ဆုံးေသာ တပည့္သာ၀က တုိ႔ ျဖစ္သည္။

Ariya Disciple

Three types of ariya disciple:
(1) The ordinary ariya disciple who attains ariyahood on gaining spiritual maturity, who has had no fixed duration to attain this goal, Pakatisᾱvaka.
(2) The eighty great disciples who had to undergo a period of a hundred thousands kappas or world-cycles in fulfilling the necessary Perfection, Mahᾱsᾱvaka.
(3) The (two) eminent Chief Disciples who had to undergo a period of one asaṅkheyya and a hundred thousand world-cycles in fulfilling the necessary Perfection, Aggasᾱvaka.