Dhammavuddho Mahathera & sotāpatti

[Pasanna]

Bhikkhu Bodhi’s In The Buddha’s Words X: The Planes of Realization

Introduction The cultivation of wisdom, as we have seen, aims at the realization of Nibbāna. The Nikāyas stipulate a fixed series of stages through which a person passes on the way toward the attainment of Nibbāna. In passing through these stages one evolves from an “uninstructed worldling,” blind to the truths of the Dhamma, into an arahant, a liberated one, who has attained full comprehension of the Four Noble Truths and realized Nibbāna in this present life. I have already referred to several…

This commentary by Bhikkhu Bodhi has many referenced suttas at the end and covers the topic of path and fruit.