[140] **Having untied the knot of grasping that has been tied:** *Knots* (gantha): there are four knots — covetousness (abhijjhā) is a bodily knot (kāyagantha); ill will (byāpāda) is a bodily knot; adherence to rules and rituals (sīlabbataparāmāsa) is a bodily knot; dogmatic insistence that "this alone is true" (idaṃsaccābhinivesa) is a bodily knot. Lust for one's own view (diṭṭhi) is the bodily knot of covetousness. Resentment and displeasure toward the doctrines of others is the bodily knot of ill will. One adheres to one's own virtue, or observance, or virtue-and-observance: this is the bodily knot of adherence to rules and rituals. One's own view is the bodily knot of dogmatic insistence that "this alone is true." For what reason are they called the "knot of grasping"? By those knots they take up, cling to, grasp, adhere to, and insist upon form; they take up, cling to, grasp, adhere to, and insist upon feeling (vedanā), perception, volitional formations, consciousness, destination, rebirth, rebirth-linking, existence, saṃsāra, and the round (vaṭṭa). For that reason they are called the "knot of grasping."
**Having untied:** either having relinquished the knots — untied; or else, having burst open the bondage of the knots — tied, knotted, bound, bound up, bound fast, stuck, attached, impeded — untied. Just as people make a palanquin, a chariot, a cart, or a carriage that has been rigged to be un-rigged — they take it apart — even so, either having relinquished the knots — untied; or else, having burst open the bondage of the knots — tied, knotted, bound, bound up, bound fast, stuck, attached, impeded — untied. Thus: **having untied the knot of grasping that has been tied.**
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.