Faith-follower & Truth-follower

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Monks,
the eye is impermanent, changing, 'becoming-otherwise.' 
the ear is impermanent, changing, 'becoming-otherwise.’
the nose is impermanent, changing, 'becoming-otherwise.'
the tongue is impermanent, changing, 'becoming-otherwise.'
the body is impermanent, changing, 'becoming-otherwise.'
the mind is impermanent, changing, 'becoming-otherwise.'

Monks, the one who accepts these truths by faith is called faith-follower (saddhā’nusārī); 
He is descending into the certainty of rightness [the fixed course to rightness] (sammatta niyama)], descending into the plane of true individuals (sathpurusha)’ he has gone beyond the plane of the worldlings.
He is incapable of doing any intentional deed by which he might be reborn in hell, or in the animal birth, or in the ghost realm. He is incapable of dying without having attained the fruit of streamwinning.

Monks, the one who accepts these truths after pondering over them with some wisdom thus, is called a truth-follower (dhammā’nusāriī); 
He is descending into the certainty of rightness [the fixed course to rightness] (sammatta niyama), descending into the plane of true individuals (sathpurusha), he has gone beyond the plane of the worldlings. 
He is incapable of doing any intentional deed by which he might be reborn in hell, or in the animal birth, or in the ghost realm. He is incapable of dying without having attained the fruit of streamwinning.

Stream Winner
One who knows and sees these truths thus is called a streamwinner, no longer bound for the lower world, sure of liberation, bound for awakening.


Kandha Sutra (Samyutta Nikaya) 
(Quoted in Sathyaye Arunodaya, Ven Alawwe Anomadassi Thero)

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