iti104:2.1 “Mendicants, take a mendicant who is accomplished in ethics, immersion, wisdom, freedom, and the knowledge and vision of freedom. They advise and instruct. They educate, encourage, fire up, and inspire, and can rightly explain the true teaching. Even the sight of those mendicants is very helpful, I say.
iti104:2.2 Even to hear them,
iti104:2.3 approach them,
iti104:2.4 pay homage to them,
iti104:2.5 recollect them,
iti104:2.6 or go forth after them is very helpful, I say.
iti104:2.7 Why is that?
iti104:2.8 For one who frequents and associates with such mendicants, their incomplete spectrum of ethics is completed. Their incomplete spectrum of immersion … wisdom … freedom … knowledge and vision of freedom is completed.
iti104:2.9 Such mendicants are called ‘teachers’, ‘caravan leaders’, ‘strife-discarders’, ‘dispellers of darkness’, ‘bringers of light’, ‘luminaries’, ‘lamps’, ‘candlebearers’, ‘beacons’, ‘noble ones’, and ‘clear-eyed ones’.”
iti104:2.10 The Buddha spoke this matter.
iti104:2.11 On this it is said: