Here’s indeed the starting point
for the bhikkhu who is wise,
sense-controlled, contented too,
restrained to limit freedom ways,
in company of noble friends
who’re pure of life and keen.
Explanation: The joy experienced as a fore taste of Nibbana, through the awareness of the rise and decay of the aggregates, is the first step of the wise meditator. Guarding the senses, even-minded, and disciplined in the principal code of morality and association with good friends who are unrelaxed in their effort and are pure in behaviour.