6.
The Chapter on Direct Knowledge
1-3.
Commentary on the Discourse on Direct Knowledge and Others
254-256. In the first of the sixth, "through direct knowledge" means having known. "Serenity and insight" means unified focus of mind and insight knowledge of discernment of activities. "True knowledge and liberation" means true knowledge of path knowledge and the remaining associated mental states. In the second, "ignoble quest" means the search, the seeking of ignoble persons. "Subject to ageing" means having the intrinsic nature of ageing. The same method applies in the remaining ones too. The third is clear in itself.
4.
Commentary on the Mālukyaputta Discourse
257. In the fourth, "Mālukyaputta" means the son of the brahmin woman Mālukyā. "Here" means in this request of yours for exhortation. By this he both disparages and exalts the elder. How? It is said that this one, having been attached to requisites in his youth, afterwards in old age, aspiring for forest dwelling, requests a meditation subject. Then the Blessed One, saying "What shall we say here to the young monks? Just as Mālukyaputta, you too, having been attached to requisites in your youth, would enter the forest in old age and practise the duties of a monk" - speaking with this intention, he disparages the elder. But since the elder, even in old age, having entered the forest, was desirous of practising the duties of a monk, therefore the Blessed One said: "What shall we say here to the young monks? This Mālukyaputta of ours, even in old age, having entered the forest, desirous of practising the duties of a monk, requests a meditation subject. Yet you do not even make energy in your youth" - speaking with this intention, he exalts the elder - this is the explanation.
5-10.
Commentary on the Discourse on Families and Others
258-263. In the fifth, "place in authority" means they place in the position of storekeeper. In the sixth, "endowed with beauty" means endowed with bodily complexion. "Endowed with power" means endowed with bodily strength. In the section on monks, "endowed with beauty" means endowed with the beauty of virtuous qualities. "Endowed with power" means endowed with the power of energy. "Endowed with speed" means endowed with the speed of knowledge. In the seventh too, the same method applies. The remainder here is clear in itself.
The Sixth is the Chapter on Direct Knowledge.