Does SN 12.44 explain the missing mechanism behind Ud 1.10 and nibbāna?

Several years back I posted an essay on Vinanna Anidassana where I included quotes from 15-20 suttas along these lines. Here are a few examples from that - not sure if this is what you are asking about:

SN22.99

But the instructed noble disciple … does not regard form as self … nor feeling as self … nor perception as self … nor volitional formations as self … nor consciousness as self…. He no longer keeps running and revolving around form, around feeling, around perception, around volitional formations, around consciousness. As he no longer keeps running and revolving around them, he is freed from form, freed from feeling, freed from perception, freed from volitional formations, freed from consciousness.

But freed does not mean absent:

AN 10.81

“Sir, how many things has the Realized One escaped from, so that he lives unattached, liberated, his mind free of limits?”

“Bāhuna, the Realized One has escaped from ten things, so that he lives unattached, liberated, his mind free of limits.

What ten?

Form …feeling …perception… choices…consciousness (five aggregates)
rebirth …old age …death …suffering …defilements …

Suppose there was a blue water lily, or a pink or white lotus. Though it sprouted and grew in the water, it would rise up above the water and stand with no water clinging to it. [Note: the water didn’t cease to exist]

In the same way, the Realized One has escaped from ten things, so that he lives unattached, liberated, his mind free of limits.”

All five aggregates are still present for the Arahant but as they are no longer conditioned (SN22.48, SN22.79) they no longer get ‘built up’ forming ‘the world’ (a world of ‘things’ which I grab onto as me and mine for example.

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