[215] **Lamentation and stinginess do not stick to him, as water does not stick to a leaf** — **"To him"**: to that person, the Arahant whose taints (āsava) are destroyed (khīṇāsava). **"Lamentation" (parideva)**: for one touched by loss of relatives, or touched by loss of wealth, or touched by loss through illness, or touched by loss of virtue, or touched by loss of view, for one who has met with one or another loss, or who is touched by one or another painful thing — the crying, lamenting, the act of crying, the act of lamenting, the state of having cried, the state of having lamented; the talk, prattle, babbling, wailing, the act of wailing, the state of having wailed. **"Stinginess" (macchariya)**: there are five kinds of stinginess: stinginess as to dwellings, stinginess as to families, stinginess as to gains, stinginess as to praise, stinginess as to Dhamma. Whatever stinginess of such a kind, the act of being stingy, the state of being stingy, avarice, meanness, niggardliness, the ungenerous grip of the mind (citta) — this is called stinginess. Moreover, stinginess regarding the aggregates (khandha) is also stinginess; stinginess regarding the elements (dhātu) is also stinginess; stinginess regarding the sense bases (āyatana) is also stinginess; grasping — this is called stinginess. **"As water does not stick to a leaf"**: "leaf" means a lotus leaf; "water" (vāri) means water. Just as water does not stick to a lotus leaf, does not adhere, does not cling — is unstuck, unadhered, unclung — even so, to that person, the Arahant whose taints are destroyed, lamentation and stinginess do not stick, do not adhere, do not cling — they are unstuck, unadhered, unclung; and that person does not stick, does not adhere, does not cling to those defilements (kilesa) — he is unstuck, unadhered, unclung, gone forth from them, released, freed, detached from them; he dwells with a mind made free of boundaries. Hence: "Lamentation and stinginess do not stick to him, as water does not stick to a leaf." Therefore the Blessed One said:
The sage (muni), independent in all things,
makes nothing dear, nor anything disliked;
lamentation and stinginess do not stick to him,
as water does not stick to a leaf.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.