To Ven. ṅnanda ṅnanda Sutta (AN 3:32)
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('â', This is peace, this is exquisite—the pacification of all fabrications; the relinquishing of all acquisitions; the ending of craving; dispassion; cessation; unbinding.â This is how a monk would have a concentration-attainment of a such a sort that, with regard to this conscious body, he would have no I-making or mine-making conceit-obsession, that with regard to all external themes [topics of concentration] he would have no I-making or mine-making conceit-obsession, and that he would enter & remain in the awareness-release & discernment-release in which there is no I-making or mine-making conceit-obsession for one entering & remaining in it. "And it was in reference to this that I said, in Puṃṃakaâs Questions in the Pṅrṅyana [Sn 5:3]: He who has fathomed the high & low in the world, for whom there is nothing perturbing in the world— evaporated,1 undesiring, untroubled, at peace— he, I tell you, has crossed over birth & aging. Note 1. According to Nd II, this means that oneâs bodily, verbal, and mental misconduct has evaporated away, along with all oneâs defilements. See also: AN 9:36 - --> - - - -