ond the wandering-on. Knowing this drawback in sensual pleasures, the wise should abandon all sensual desires, whether human or divine. Having cut the flow of greed for lovely, alluring forms so hard to transcend, having,         without remainder, comprehended stress, they are,      without remainder, totally unbound. They, the wise, with an attainer-of-wisdomâs noble vision, right gnosis, directly knowing the ending of birth, come to no further becoming. Note 1. As the verse makes clear, these three categories denote three levels of devas in the heavens of sensual pleasure. "Those in control" are at the highest of these levels. See also: SN 55:54; Dhp 186—187 - --> - - - -