1At Sāvatthī. "Bhikkhus, I will teach you the inferior person and the one who is worse than the inferior person. I will teach you the superior person and the one who is better than the superior person. Listen to that …

"And what, bhikkhus, is the inferior person? Here someone is of wrong view … wrong concentration. This is called the inferior person.

2"And what, bhikkhus, is the one who is worse than the inferior person? Here someone is of wrong view … wrong concentration, wrong knowledge, wrong liberation. [n.25] The two additional qualities are micchāñāṇi and micchāvimutti. Spk glosses the former as micchāpaccavekkhaṇa, "wrong reviewing," on which Spk-pṭ says: "When one has done something evil, one reviews it with the idea that it was good." Spk explains micchavimutti as a false liberation (ayāthāvavimutti), a nonemancipating liberation (aniyyānikavimutti). This is called the one who is worse than the inferior person.

3"And what, bhikkhus, is the superior person? Here someone is of right view, right intention, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration. This is called the superior person.

4"And what, bhikkhus, is the one who is better than the superior person? Here someone is of right view, right intention, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration, right knowledge, right liberation. This is called the one who is better than the superior person."

1Sāvatthinidānaṁ. "Asappurisañca vo, bhikkhave, desessāmi, asappurisena asappurisatarañca. Sappurisañca vo, bhikkhave, desessāmi sappurisena sappurisatarañca. Taṁ suṇātha.

Katamo ca, bhikkhave, asappuriso? Idha, bhikkhave, ekacco micchādiṭṭhiko hoti … pe … micchāsamādhi – ayaṁ vuccati, bhikkhave, asappuriso.

2Katamo ca, bhikkhave, asappurisena asappurisataro? Idha, bhikkhave, ekacco micchādiṭṭhiko hoti … pe … micchāsamādhi, micchāñāṇī, micchāvimutti – ayaṁ vuccati, bhikkhave, asappurisena asappurisataro.

3Katamo ca, bhikkhave, sappuriso? Idha, bhikkhave, ekacco sammādiṭṭhiko hoti … pe … sammāsamādhi – ayaṁ vuccati, bhikkhave, sappuriso.

4Katamo ca, bhikkhave, sappurisena sappurisataro? Idha, bhikkhave, ekacco sammādiṭṭhiko hoti … pe … sammāsamādhi, sammāñāṇī, sammāvimutti – ayaṁ vuccati, bhikkhave, sappurisena sappurisataro"ti.

Chaṭṭhaṁ.