[365] "Thus the sage (muni), a speaker of peace, ungreedy, is unsmeared with regard to sensual pleasures and the world": the word "thus (evaṃ)" brings the simile to completion. "Sage (muni)": knowledge (ñāṇa) is called sagacity (mona) … having passed beyond attachment and the net [of craving (taṇhā)], he is a sage. "A speaker of peace": the sage is a speaker of peace, a speaker of shelter, a speaker of a cave [of safety], a speaker of refuge, a speaker of fearlessness, a speaker of the imperishable, a speaker of the deathless, a speaker of Nibbāna — thus "the sage, a speaker of peace." "Ungreedy": craving is called greed (gedha) — whatever lust, passion, … covetousness, greed (lobha), the unwholesome root. He for whom this greed has been abandoned, cut off, stilled, tranquilized, rendered incapable of arising again, burnt up by the fire of knowledge — he is called ungreedy. He is ungreedy with regard to form, sounds, odors, tastes, tangible objects, family, company, dwelling, gain, fame, praise, pleasure, robes, almsfood, lodging, medicinal requisites for the sick, the sensual element, the form element, the formless element, sensual existence, form existence, formless existence, percipient existence, non-percipient existence, neither-percipient-nor-non-percipient existence, one-constituent existence, four-constituent existence, five-constituent existence, the past, the future, the present, and with regard to phenomena seen, heard, sensed, and cognizable he is ungreedy, not bound, not infatuated, not engrossed; with greed gone, given up, vomited up, released, abandoned, relinquished; with lust gone, given up, vomited up, released, abandoned, relinquished; hungerless, quenched, become cool, an experiencer of bliss, he dwells with himself become divine (brahmabhūta) — thus "the sage, a speaker of peace, ungreedy." "Unsmeared with regard to sensual pleasures and the world": "sensual pleasures": by way of summary there are two kinds of sensual pleasures: sensuality of objects (vatthukāma) and sensuality of defilements (kilesakāma) … these are called sensuality of objects … these are called sensuality of defilements. "In the world": in the world of the planes of misery, the world of humans, the world of devas, the world of aggregates (khandha), the world of elements (dhātu), the world of sense bases (āyatana). "Smearing (lepa)": there are two smearings: the smearing of craving and the smearing of views … this is the smearing of craving … this is the smearing of views. The sage, having abandoned the smearing of craving and relinquished the smearing of views, is not smeared, not besmeared, not stained with regard to sensual pleasures and the world; unsmeared, unbesmeared, unstained, gone out, escaped, fully released, detached, he dwells with a mind rid of boundaries — thus "the sage, a speaker of peace, ungreedy, is unsmeared with regard to sensual pleasures and the world." Therefore the Blessed One said:
"Secluded from those [views], one would wander in the world;
a nāga would not take them up and assert them.
Just as the water-born lotus with its thorny stalk
is unsmeared by water and by mud,
so the sage, a speaker of peace, ungreedy,
is unsmeared with regard to sensual pleasures and the world."
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.