[565] "Good, venerable sir." … (he) asked a question: "Venerable sir, the one who is dead, who has completed his time, and this bhikkhu who has attained the cessation of perception and feeling (saññāvedayitanirodha) — what is the difference between these two?"
"Householder (gahapati), for the one who is dead, who has completed his time, the bodily formation (kāyasaṅkhāra) has ceased and subsided, the verbal formation (vacīsaṅkhāra) has ceased and subsided, the mental formation (cittasaṅkhāra) has ceased and subsided; his vitality (āyu) is exhausted, his heat (usmā) has been dissipated, his faculties (indriya) are broken apart. But, householder, for this bhikkhu who has attained the cessation of perception and feeling, the bodily formation has also ceased and subsided, the verbal formation has ceased and subsided, the mental formation has ceased and subsided; yet his vitality is not exhausted, his heat has not been dissipated, his faculties are serene. Householder, this is the difference between the one who is dead, who has completed his time, and the bhikkhu who has attained the cessation of perception and feeling."
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.