[724] **Thus steady, he should be without stirring (evaṃ ṭhito anejassa):** *Evaṃ* ("thus") is the term that completes the simile (opammasampaṭipādanā). **Steady (ṭhito):** he is not shaken by gain, not shaken by loss, not shaken by fame, not shaken by disrepute, not shaken by praise, not shaken by blame, not shaken by pleasure, not shaken by pain; he does not waver, does not move, does not tremble, does not quake, is not violently shaken — thus he is "steady." **Without stirring (anejassa):** "stirring" (ejā) is a term for craving (taṇhā) — that is, lust, passion … covetousness, greed, the unwholesome root. He in whom this stirring, this craving, has been abandoned, cut off, stilled, tranquilized, rendered incapable of arising again, burnt up by the fire of knowledge (ñāṇa) — he is called "one without stirring." Because stirring has been abandoned, he is without stirring. He is not stirred by gain, not stirred by loss, not stirred by fame, not stirred by disrepute, not stirred by praise, not stirred by blame, not stirred by pleasure, not stirred by pain; he does not move, does not tremble, does not quake, is not violently shaken — thus, "thus steady, he should be without stirring."
[Variant readings noted in the Siam Raṭṭha edition: (1) Ma. reads *sattasīdantarā mahāsamuddā* (pertaining to the preceding passage); (2) Ma. reads *ucchinnā* for *samucchinnā*.]
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.