4.
The Discourse on the More Peaceful
73.
This was said by the Blessed One, said by the Worthy One, thus have I heard:
"Monks, the immaterial states are more peaceful than the fine-material states, cessation is more peaceful than the immaterial states." The Blessed One said this meaning. Therein this is said:
"Those beings who have reached the fine-material states, and those who abide in the immaterial ones;
Not understanding cessation, come again to rebirth.
"But those who have fully understood the fine-material states and are not settled down in the immaterial ones,
Who are liberated in cessation: those people are conquerors of death.
"Having touched with the body the Deathless element, without clinging;
Having realised the relinquishment of clinging, without mental corruptions;
The Perfectly Enlightened One teaches the sorrowless, stainless state."
This meaning too was spoken by the Blessed One, thus have I heard. The fourth.