Do not pursue negligence, do not pursue intimacy with sensual pleasure. The vigilant who meditates attains abundant happiness.

The closing verse of the second vagga. Mā pamādamanuyuñjetha — do not pursue negligence: direct imperative, the Buddha’s voice speaking to disciples with real urgency. Not as moralism but as practical indication of what produces suffering and what produces liberation.

Mā kāmarati santhavaṃ — do not pursue intimacy with sensual pleasure: kāmarati is delight in sensory pleasures; santhava is intimacy, attachment. It is not said that pleasures are bad in themselves; the problem is intimacy, the attachment that turns them into needs and dependencies.

Appamatto hi jhāyanto — the vigilant who meditates: the combination of appamāda and jhāna is the engine of spiritual development. Vigilance without meditation tends toward anxious activism; meditation without vigilance tends toward disconnected quietism. Together they create complete practice.

Pappoti vipulaṃ sukhaṃ — attains abundant happiness: vipula is vast, wide, expanding. The practitioner’s happiness is not the narrow satisfaction of obtained pleasure but the expansion of being that frees itself from its own contractions. It is a happiness that does not exhaust its source.