Dighanikaya 31.253_4

31.253_4

Tiṇā bhiyyoti tiṇatopi uttari. So sukhaṃ na vihāyatīti so puriso sukhaṃ na jahāti, sukhasamaṅgīyeva hoti. Iminā kathāmaggena imamatthaṃ dasseti ‘‘gihibhūtena satā ettakaṃ kammaṃ na kātabbaṃ, karontassa vaḍḍhi nāma natthi. Idhaloke paraloke garahameva pāpuṇātī’’ti.

"More than grass" means even higher than grass. "He does not lose happiness" means that man does not abandon happiness; he is continuously endowed with happiness. By this line of talk he shows this meaning: "Being a householder, so much work should not be done; for one doing it, there is no growth. In this world and in the world beyond, he receives only reproach."