We truly live happily, we who have nothing. We will feed on joy, like the radiant gods.

Yesaṃ no natthi kiñcanaṃ — we who have nothing: kiñcana is something, any possession. Having nothing is not forced material poverty but the freedom of non-attachment. Akiñcana (possession-less) is also an advanced meditative stage.

Pītibhakkhā bhavissāma — we will feed on joy: pīti-bhakkhā — nourished by rapture, sustained by meditative joy. Pīti is one of the jhāna factors, an intense joy that arises in deep meditation and can literally nourish the practitioner.

Devā ābhassarā yathā — like the radiant gods: the Ābhassarā are the gods of “brilliant radiance” in Buddhist cosmology — beings who feed exclusively on pīti. They are beings of pure light who need no material food.

This verse closes the sequence of unconditional happiness (197-200) with its culmination: the happiness of one who has nothing and is nourished by joy. It is the most radical expression of spiritual freedom: needing nothing external to be deeply happy.