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Commentary on the Deathless Chapter

600-611. "Those, monks, do not consume the Deathless" means the meaning is they do not consume Nibbāna which is free from death. But is it not that Nibbāna is supramundane and mindfulness of the body is mundane - how do those who consume it consume the Deathless? Because it is to be attained by having developed that. For one who develops mindfulness of the body attains the Deathless; one who does not develop it does not attain it. Therefore it was stated thus. By this method the meaning should be understood everywhere. But here, "missed" means failed, not attained. "Undertaken" means fulfilled. "Were negligent" means they are negligent. "Forgotten" means lapsed from memory, slipped from mind, or lost. "Cultivated" means practised from the beginning. "Developed" means increased. "Cultivated" means done again and again. "Not directly known" means not known by way of direct knowledge. "Not fully understood" means not fully understood by way of full understanding through known knowledge alone. "Not realized" means not made evident through direct experience. The remainder is of manifest meaning everywhere.

Commentary on the Deathless Chapter.

In the Manorathapūraṇī, the commentary on the Aṅguttara Nikāya, of the Book of the Ones, comprising a thousand discourses,

the exposition is completed.