If you keep yourself silent as a broken gong, you have attained nibbana; aggression is not found in you.

Sace neresi attānaṃ — if you keep yourself silent: neresi comes from na iresi (you do not agitate). The image of active silence — not passivity but the conscious decision not to reverberate.

Kaṃso upahato yathā — as a broken gong: the broken gong (upahata kaṃsa) does not resonate when struck. It does not return the sound because its structure no longer transmits vibration. The image is precise: it is not that one represses — one simply no longer has the capacity to react compulsively.

Esa pattosi nibbānaṃ — you have attained nibbana: equanimity before provocation is described as nibbana itself. Not as a previous step but as the goal. Not resonating when struck is peace.

Sārambho te na vijjati — aggression is not found in you: sārambha (aggression, confrontation) simply does not exist in the equanimous being. It is not repressed, not controlled — it is not. Like sound in the broken gong: it is not that it is held back, the mechanism of production has ceased.