[127] When he beholds these five hindrances (nīvaraṇa) abandoned in himself, gladness arises; in one gladdened, rapture (pīti) arises; when the mind is filled with rapture, the body becomes tranquil; with body tranquil he experiences happiness; and for one who is happy, the mind (citta) becomes concentrated (samādhi). Quite secluded from sensual pleasures, secluded from unwholesome states, he enters and dwells in the first absorption (paṭhamajjhāna), which is accompanied by thought (vitakka) and examination (vicāra), with rapture and happiness born of seclusion. He drenches, steeps, fills, and pervades this very body with the rapture and happiness born of seclusion, so that there is no part of his whole body that is not pervaded by the rapture and happiness born of seclusion.
Great king, just as a skilled bath attendant or a bath attendant's apprentice, having heaped bath powder into a bronze dish and sprinkled it little by little with water, would knead it, so that that ball of bath powder, taken up by the moisture, saturated with moisture, pervaded by moisture within and without, yet does not ooze — even so, great king, a bhikkhu drenches, steeps, fills, and pervades this very body with the rapture and happiness born of seclusion, so that there is no part of his whole body that is not pervaded by the rapture and happiness born of seclusion. This too, great king, is a fruit of the ascetic life, visible in this very life, more excellent and more sublime than the previous fruits of the ascetic life visible in this very life.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.