As preached by Buddha there are four types of people in the world, they are ugghaṭitaññū, vipañcitaññū, neyya and padaparama. The last person is definition is here . Can anyone please guide me how how to identified the pada-parama type people.
**Update**
Based on the comments, I was looking for the definitions of above four types of people and finally found that in
Sutta Pitaka -> Kuddaka Nikaya -> Nettiprakaranaya -> Desanāhāravibhaṅga. And the english translation is not yet done, but you can find the pali here .
I've highlighted the important words in below quoted section from above sutta.
> Tattha bhagavā ugghaṭitaññussa puggalassa nissaraṇaṃ desayati,
> vipañcitaññussa puggalassa ādīnavañca nissaraṇañca desayati,
> neyyassa puggalassa assādañca ādīnavañca nissaraṇañca
> desayati.
- nissaraṇaṃ = deliverance
- ādīnavañca = danger
- assādañca = attractiveness
- puggalassa = person
- desayati = lecturing / teaching
So here are three main things in Buddhism which are assādañca, ādīnavañca and nissaraṇañca. And the details of how it relates to the path can be found in <a href="/redirect?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.accesstoinsight.org%2Ftipitaka%2Fsn%2Fsn22%2Fsn22.109.wlsh.html" class="external-link" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Sotapanna Sutta <i class="fas fa-external-link-alt fa-xs"></i></a> as below.
> And when, monks, the Ariyan disciple understands as they really are
> the arising and the passing away, the attractiveness and the danger,
> and the deliverance from the five groups of clinging, he is called an
> Ariyan disciple who is a Stream-winner, not liable to states of
> woe,[1] assured of final enlightenment.
So in summary, out of the the four persons three has defined the based on what to be taught.
1. ugghaṭitaññussa -> Teaching deliverance is sufficient.
2. vipañcitaññussa -> Teaching danger and deliverance is sufficient.
3. neyyassa -> Has to teach all three which are attractiveness danger and deliverance.
4. Pada parama -> Can not attain Nivana as he is the one for whom the words are the utmost attainment'.;Whoever, though having learned much, speaking much, knowing many things by heart, and discoursing much, has not penetrated the truth. (this is extracted from here )
Asked by Isuru
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Jun 16, 2019, 05:45 PM
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