34: A person without ardency, without compunction, is incapable of self-awakening, incapable of unbinding, incapable of attaining the unexcelled security from bondage. A person ardent & compunctious is capable of self-awakening, capable of unbinding, capable of attaining the unexcelled security from bondage. Without ardency, without compunction, lazy, with low persistence, full of sloth & drowsiness, shameless, without respect: Heâs incapable, a monk like this, of touching superlative self-awakening. But whoever is mindful, masterful, absorbed in jhṅna, ardent, compunctious, & heedful, cutting the fetter of birth & aging, touches right here & now a self-awakening unsurpassed. - --> - - - -