Itivuttaka 33

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34. Atapisuttam (Exertion in the Path Leads to Awakening)

This was said by the Lord Buddha(Bhagavata), said by the Arahant, so I have heard:

“Monks, a person without ardency, without compunction, is incapable of self-awakening, incapable of Unbinding (nibbana), incapable of attaining the unsurpassed safety from bondage. A person ardent & compunctious is capable of self-awakening, capable of Unbinding (nibbana), capable of attaining the unsurpassed safety from bondage.”

With no ardency, no compunction, lazy, with low persistence, full of sloth & drowsiness, shameless, without respect: he’s incapable, a monk like this, of touching superlative self-awakening(sam-bodhi). But whoever meditates, exerts, masterful, ardent, focussed, & alert, cutting the fetter of birth & aging, touches right here a self-awakening unsurpassed.