[121] **Not stained by merit and by evil (puññe ca pāpe ca anūpalitto):** "Merit" (puñña) is said of any wholesome volitional formation pertaining to the three elements (tedhātuka). "Demerit" (apuñña) is said of all that is unwholesome. When the formation of merit (puññābhisaṅkhāra), the formation of demerit (apuññābhisaṅkhāra), and the formation of the imperturbable (āneñjābhisaṅkhāra) have been abandoned, cut off at the root, made like a palm stump, obliterated, no longer subject to arising in the future — to that extent one is not stained, not besmeared, not defiled by merit and by evil; unstained, unbesmeared, undefiled, one has gone out from them, relinquished them, is fully released from them, detached from them, and dwells with a mind (citta) made free of boundaries. Hence: "not stained by merit and by evil."
[Editorial footnote in source: ¹ Burmese ed.: disāvatikā. ² Burmese ed.: phālaṃ. ³ Burmese ed.: phussa … phussamattikā.]
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.