Recognizing the loss of fetters
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Fetters are eliminated in four stages of Sotapanna, Sakdhagamia, Anagami, and Arahant. You experience the first elimination of fetters when you become a Sotapanna. As per ven. Vijithananda .this happened when you practice Satipathana and for the first time you experience elements. (Dhatu) At this stage, you eliminate self-view, doubt and clinging to rites and rituals.
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If one has doubt about the loss of a fetter, is that in itself proof that it has not been lost?
Yes.
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The first Fetter is personality view i.e. the belief that you're in charge of your destiny. To overcome this fetter is rated the most difficult. If you do succeed, it means that you physically experience, during meditation, that you're no longer in charge. Your breath has disappeared. You're not in control even of your own breathing. You may experience that your breathing has vanished and you try your best to get the breath back. But, you fail because when you overcome the first fetter you are no longer in control even of your own breathing. There is No Self - Anatma. After reaching this stage during meditation and you reflect back when you are off the cushion, there is no doubt in your mind that there was no personality operating during that specific period of time, when you lost control of your breathing. Yes, it is quite obvious.
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