Samyutta Nikaya: Mahavagga: Balasamyutta (V-50)

 

Again the five spiritual powers—same as the five faculties of faith, energy, mindfulness, concentration, and wisdom.

 

These are placed into repetition series, sometimes together with the five higher fetters:

 

  1. Lust for form
  2. Lust for the formless
  3. Conceit
  4. Ignorance
  5. Restlessness

 

The five powers are cultivated for direct knowledge of them, full understanding, their utter destruction, their abandoning.