4.
The Discourse on More Calmed
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 material states, cessation is more peaceful than the immaterial states." The Blessed One said this meaning. Therein this is said:
"Those beings who have gone to form, and those who abide in the formless;
Not knowing cessation, they are ones who come to rebirth.
"But those who, having fully understood form, are not established in the formless;
Those who become 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.