a ”person with a fixed destiny”, may be either one who has committed one of the 5 ”heinous deeds with immediate result” (a^nantarika-kamma, q.v.), or one who follows ”wrong views with fixed destiny” (niyata-miccha^-ditthi, q.v.), or one who has reached one of the 4 stages of holiness (s. ariya-puggala). About the latter cf. the frequent passage: "Those disciples in whom the 3 fetters (of personality-belief, sceptical doubt and attachment to mere rules and ritual; s. samyojana) have vanished, they all have entered the stream, have forever escaped the states of woe; fixed is their destiny (niyata), assured their final enlightenment."