[269] **Thus the sage (muni) is freed from the mental body (nāmakāya)**: the word "thus" (evaṃ) in this exposition is that which completes the simile.
**The sage**: knowledge (ñāṇa) is called sagacity (mona) … having gone beyond attachment and the net, he is a sage.
**Freed from the mental body**: that sage, by nature, was previously freed from the mental body and freed from the material body (rūpakāya), these having been abandoned by abandonment through transcendence by the respective factor and through suppression. For that sage, relying upon the venerable one, the four noble paths are obtained. Because the four noble paths have been obtained, the mental body and the material body are fully understood. Because the mental body and the material body have been fully understood, he is freed, liberated from the mental body and from the material body through absolute liberation. Thus the sage is freed from the mental body.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.