27(7)Concentration
"Bhikkhus,being alert and mindful,develop concentration that is measureless.
Appamānan.Mp:“Devoid of measure-creating qualities,world-transcending”(pamanakaradhammarahitam lokuttaram).Normally,the Nikayas identify the measureless concentration with the four divine abodes (brahmavihara),but some texts also recognize a world-transcending measureless concentration,obtained with the destruction of the three"measure-producing"qualities:greed,hatred,and delusion.See MN 43.35,I298,8-9;SN 41:7,IV·297,11-12.
When,alert and mindful,you develop concentration that is measureless,five kinds of knowledge arise that are personally yours.
What five?
(1)The knowledge arises that is personally yours:'This concentration is presently pleasant and in the future has a pleasant result.'(2)The knowledge arises that is personally yours:This concentration is noble and spiritual.'(3)The knowledge arises that is personally yours:'This concentration is not practiced by low persons.(4)The knowledge arises that is personally yours:"This concentrationbis peaceful and sublime,gained by full tranquilization,and attained to unification;it is not reined in and checked by forcefully suppressing [the defilements].
See p.1669,notes 560-61.(5)The knowledge arises that is personally yours:'I enter this concentration
Be omits samadhim.Apparently this is not a typographical error,as according to a note in Ee,the same omission commonly occurs in Burmese manuscripts. mindfully and I emerge from it mindfully.'
Bhikkhus,being alert and continuously mindful,develop concentration that is measureless
.When you are alert and mindful,developing concentration that is measureless,these five kinds of knowledge arise that are personally yours."[25]