Anguttaranikaya 8.2.2.5.65_3

8.2.2.5.65_3

Appamāṇānīti vaḍḍhitappamāṇāni, mahantānīti attho. Abhibhuyyāti ettha ca pana yathā mahagghaso puriso ekaṃ bhattavaḍḍhitakaṃ labhitvā ‘‘aññāpi hotu, aññāpi hotu, kiṃ esā mayhaṃ karissatī’’ti na taṃ mahantato passati, evameva ñāṇuttaro puggalo visadañāṇo ‘‘kiṃ ettha samāpajjitabbaṃ, nayidaṃ appamāṇaṃ, na mayhaṃ cittekaggatākaraṇe bhāro atthī’’ti abhibhavitvā samāpajjati, saha nimittuppādanevettha appanaṃ pāpetīti attho.

'Immeasurable' (appamāṇāni) means with an expanded measure, meaning large. 'Having mastered' (abhibhuyya): here, too, just as a gluttonous man, having received an enlarged portion of food, does not see it as large, thinking, 'Let there be another, let there be another, what will this do for me?', even so an individual of superior knowledge, with clear knowledge, thinking, 'What is there to attain here? This is not immeasurable; there is no burden for me in producing one-pointedness of mind,' masters it and attains [absorption]; the meaning is that right with the arising of the sign he brings about absorption.