Linked Discourses 55.47

5. Overflowing Merit, With Verses

With Nandiya

At Kapilavatthu.
Seated to one side, the Buddha said to Nandiya the Sakyan:
 “Nandiya, a noble disciple who has four things is a stream-enterer, not liable to be reborn in the underworld, bound for awakening.
 What four?
 It’s when a noble disciple has experiential confidence in the Buddha …
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 the teaching …
 the Saṅgha …
 And they have the ethical conduct loved by the noble ones … leading to immersion.
 A noble disciple who has these four things is a stream-enterer, not liable to be reborn in the underworld, bound for awakening.”