sn44.9:4.1 This ascetic Gotama leads an order and a community, and tutors a community. He’s a well-known and famous religious founder, deemed holy by many people.
sn44.9:4.2 When a disciple passes away, he declares that
sn44.9:4.3 this one is reborn here, while that one is reborn there.
sn44.9:4.4 But as for a disciple who is a supreme person, highest of people, having reached the highest point, when they pass away he doesn’t declare that
sn44.9:4.5 this one is reborn here, while that one is reborn there.
sn44.9:4.6 Rather, he declares that they have
sn44.9:4.7 cut off craving, cast off the fetters, and by rightly comprehending conceit have made an end of suffering.’
sn44.9:4.8 I had doubt and uncertainty about that:
sn44.9:4.9 ‘How on earth can I understand the ascetic Gotama’s teaching?’”