by painful mental plans,

which are born of remorse.

That simpleton evildoer,

knowing their own misdeeds,

goes to one of the animal realms,

or is trapped in hell.

Such imprisonment is true suffering,

from which the attentive are released.

With confident heart, they give

with wealth that is properly earned.

That faithful householder of discernment

holds a winning hand on both counts:

welfare and benefit in this life,

and happiness in lives to come.

This is how, for a householder,

merit grows by generosity.

In the same way, in the Noble One’s training,

whoever is grounded in faith,

with conscience and prudence,

wise, and ethically restrained,

is said to live happily

in the Noble One’s training.

After gaining pleasure not of the flesh,

they concentrate on equanimity.

They give up the five hindrances,

constantly energetic,

and enter the absorptions,

unified, alert, and mindful.

Truly knowing in this way

regards the ending of all fetters,

by not grasping in any way,

their mind is rightly freed.

To that unaffected one, rightly freed

with the end of the fetters of continued existence,

the knowledge comes:

‘My freedom is unshakable.’

This is the ultimate knowledge.

This is the supreme happiness.

Sorrowless, stainless, secure:

this is the highest freedom from debt.”

Numbered Discourses 6.46 5. About Dhammika By Mahācunda