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"So buddhe aveccappasādena samannāgato hoti – itipi so bhagavā - pe - satthā devamanussānaṃ buddho bhagavāti; dhamme - pe - saṅghe aveccappasādena samannāgato hoti suppaṭipanno bhagavato sāvakasaṅgho - pe - anuttaraṃ puññakkhettaṃ lokassāti.
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“He possesses confirmed confidence in the Buddha thus: ‘The Blessed One is … teacher of devas and humans, the Enlightened One, the Blessed One.’ He possesses confirmed confidence in the Dhamma … in the Saṅgha.…
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Yato kho, gahapatayo, ariyasāvako imehi sattahi saddhammehi [dhammehi (sī.)] samannāgato hoti imehi catūhi ākaṅkhiyehi ṭhānehi, so ākaṅkhamāno attanāva attānaṃ byākareyya – 'khīṇanirayomhi khīṇatiracchānayoni [khīṇatiracchānayoniyo (sī. syā. kaṃ. pī.), khīṇatiracchānayoniko (ka.)] khīṇapettivisayo khīṇāpāyaduggativinipāto, sotāpannohamasmi avinipātadhammo niyato sambodhiparāyaṇo"'ti.
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“When, householders, the noble disciple possesses these seven good qualities and these four desirable states, if he wishes he could by himself declare of himself: ‘I am one finished with hell, finished with the animal realm, finished with the domain of ghosts, finished with the plane of misery, the bad destinations, the nether world. I am a stream-enterer, no longer bound to the nether world, fixed in destiny, with enlightenment as my destination.’ ”
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