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Commentary on the Chapter on Happiness
65. In the first of the second, "the happiness of the householder" means the happiness of laypeople rooted in the accomplishment of all sensual pleasures. "The happiness of one gone forth" means the happiness of those gone forth rooted in going forth.
66. In the second, "sensual happiness" means happiness arising with reference to sensual pleasures. "Happiness of renunciation": renunciation is called going forth; happiness arising with reference to that.
67. In the third, "happiness of clinging" means happiness of the three planes of existence. "Happiness free from clinging" means supramundane happiness.
68. In the fourth, "happiness with mental corruptions" means the happiness of the round of rebirths that has become a condition for the mental corruptions. "Happiness without mental corruptions" means the happiness of the end of the round of rebirths that has not become a condition for them.
69. In the fifth, "carnal" means defilement, happiness leading to the round of rebirths. "Spiritual" means free from mental defilement, happiness leading to the end of the round of rebirths.
70. In the sixth, "noble happiness" means happiness that is not of a worldling. "Ignoble happiness" means happiness of a worldling.
71. In the seventh, "bodily" means conascent with body-consciousness. "Mental" means happiness through the mind-door. That has been spoken of as a mixture of mundane and supramundane.
72. In the eighth, "with rapture" means the happiness of the first and second meditative absorptions. "Without rapture" means the happiness of the third and fourth meditative absorptions. Therein, the state of being foremost should be understood by dividing the intermediate planes thus: mundane without rapture is foremost compared to mundane with rapture, and supramundane without rapture is foremost compared to supramundane with rapture.
73. In the ninth, "the happiness of pleasure" means happiness in the three meditative absorptions. "The happiness of equanimity" means the happiness of the fourth meditative absorption.
74. In the tenth, "the happiness of concentration" means the happiness attained through either absorption or access. "The happiness of non-concentration" means the happiness not attained through either of those two.
75. In the eleventh, "with rapture as its object" means the happiness that arises for one who reviews the two meditative absorptions accompanied by rapture. In "without rapture as its object" too, the same method applies. In the twelfth too, the meaning should be understood by this very method.
77. In the thirteenth, "with material object" means having the object of the fourth meditative absorption of the fine-material-sphere, or whatever arises referring to any materiality. "With immaterial object" means having the object of the meditative absorption of the immaterial-sphere of existence, or whatever arises referring to any immateriality.
The Chapter on Happiness is the second.