Duṭṭhaṭṭhakasuttaniddesa

Suttapiṭaka · Khuddakanikāya · Mahāniddesa · Vol. 29 · Section 103

[103] **He, being without attachment (upaya), by what would he go?** — "Attachment": there are two attachments: attachment through craving (taṇhā) and attachment through views … this is attachment through craving … this is attachment through views. His attachment through craving has been abandoned, his attachment through views relinquished; because attachment through craving has been abandoned and attachment through views relinquished, he is without attachment. By what lust (rāga) would he go? By what hatred would he go? By what delusion would he go? By what conceit (māna) would he go? By what view (diṭṭhi) would he go? By what restlessness (uddhacca) would he go? By what doubt (vicikicchā) would he go? By what latent tendencies (anusaya) would he go — such that he might be called "lustful," or "hating," or "deluded," or "bound," or "grasping," or "gone to distraction," or "gone to indecision," or "gone to obstinacy"? Those volitional formations (abhisaṅkhāra) have been abandoned; because the volitional formations have been abandoned, by what would he go to the destinations (gati) — as "a hell-being," or "one born in the animal realm," or "one of the realm of hungry ghosts," or "a human," or "a god," or "one having form," or "formless," or "percipient," or "non-percipient," or "neither-percipient-nor-non-percipient"? For him there is no cause, there is no condition, there is no reason by which he would go. Thus: **he, being without attachment, by what would he go?** Therefore the Blessed One said: For the cleansed one (dhona) there is not, anywhere in the world, any view formulated concerning states of existence great or small; having abandoned deceit (māyā) and conceit, the cleansed one — by what would he go? He is without attachment.

English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.