Then, by letting go these five bindups, afflictions of the heart,
crippling to wisdom, separating myself from sense pleasures,
separating myself from unskillful things, with rethinking, with
reminiscing,[13] there came the pleasurable Enthusiasm born of
solitude inhabiting the first burning.
Then, rethinking and reminiscing calmed, inwardly impassive, become
unified in heart, without rethinking, without reminiscing, there came
the pleasurable Enthusiasm born of serinity inhabiting the second
burning.
Then, Enthusiasm fading, living detached, recollected and self-aware,
there came the experiencing of the bodily pleasure inhabiting the
third burning of which the Aristocrats delcare:
'Detached, recollected, he lives happily.'
Then, letting go of pleasure, letting go of pain, their precursers in
mental ease and discomfort having found their own way home, without
pain or pleasure, there came the utter purity of the detached mind
inhabiting the fourth burning.
Then, thus with calm heart, pure, clean, debtless, without
afflictions, become soft, capable, steadfast, unshakable, the heart
bent down to knowledge of the eradication of the corruptions.
Then the knowledge: 'This is pain' emerged as though a splendid light
from a dark cloud, the knowledge: 'This is the source of pain' emerged
as though a splendid light from a dark cloud, the knowledge: 'This is
the end to pain' emerged as though a splendid light from a dark cloud,
the knowledge: 'This is the way to walk to the end of pain' emerged as
though a splended light from a dark cloud.
Then the knowledge: 'This is corruption' emerged as though a splended
light from a dark cloud, the knowledge: 'This is the source of
corruption' emerged as though a splended light from a dark cloud, the
knowledge: 'This is the end to corruption' emerged as though a
splended light from a dark cloud, the knowledge: 'This is the way to
walk to the end of corruption' emerged as though a splended light from
a dark cloud.
When I knew thus, saw thus, I was freed in heart from the corruption
of sense pleasures, freed in heart from the corruption of living,
freed in heart from the corruption of blindness.
In freedom I thought: "I am free' and had the knowledge:
'Birth: left behind, carrying on as Brahma: finished, duty's doing:
done, no further it'n-n-at'n is to be known for me'.
Even so, my friends, thus knowing, seeing, with regard to this body
with consciousness and all external signs, I say that 'Bias towards
me- my-making is uprooted.'