| Striving all through the night, Samudra broke through the bonds of earthly attachments and became an arhat, a liberated being. |
| Arhat stands here for any realised being including bodhisattvas. |
| The life of an Arhat which includes the strictest morality is commended on its own account as the best and happiest existence. |
| The arhat, having freed himself from the bonds of desire, will not be reborn. |
| The state of an arhat is considered in the Theravada tradition to be the proper goal of a Buddhist. |
| The Hinayana approach stresses the ideal of the arhat, the enlightened one who has attained nirvana. |
