[513] **"But some of them, claiming to be skilled, speak of peace in the state without residue remaining (anupādisesa)"** means: among those same ascetics and brahmins, some ascetics and brahmins, holders of the annihilationist doctrine (ucchedavāda), terrified of existence, delight in non-existence. They speak of the peace, the calming, the stilling, the cessation (nirodha), the allaying of the being thus: "In so far, good sirs, as this self, with the breakup of the body, is annihilated, perishes, and does not exist after death — to that extent there is the state without residue remaining."
**"Claiming to be skilled"** means: speaking of themselves as skilled, speaking of themselves as wise, speaking of themselves as steadfast, speaking of themselves as possessed of knowledge (ñāṇa); speaking by way of reason, speaking by way of characteristic, speaking by way of cause, speaking by way of ground — according to their own creed. Hence, "but some of them, claiming to be skilled, speak of peace in the state without residue remaining."
Therefore the Blessed One said:
> Some who are wise here declare
> that just this much is the highest — the purity of the spirit (yakkha);
> but some of them, claiming to be skilled,
> speak of peace in the state without residue remaining.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.