Kāmasuttanidadesa

Suttapiṭaka · Khuddakanikāya · Mahāniddesa · Vol. 29 · Section 2

[2] **Regarding "for one who desires sensual pleasure (kāmaṃ kāmayamānassa)":** as to "kāmas" — by way of summary there are two kinds of sensual pleasure (kāma): objective sensuality (vatthukāma) and subjective sensuality (kilesakāma). What is objective sensuality? Agreeable forms, agreeable sounds, agreeable odours, agreeable tastes, agreeable tangibles; spreads and coverings; female slaves and male slaves; goats and sheep; fowl and swine; elephants, cattle, horses, and mares; fields, land, silver, gold; villages, market towns, and royal capitals; the country and the district; the treasury and the storehouse; and whatever object arouses lust — this is objective sensuality. Moreover, past kāmas, future kāmas, present kāmas; internal kāmas, external kāmas, kāmas both internal and external; inferior kāmas, middling kāmas, superior kāmas; kāmas belonging to beings in the plane of misery, human kāmas, divine kāmas; kāmas presently established, kāmas created [by oneself], kāmas created by others; kāmas possessed, kāmas unpossessed; kāmas cherished as one's own, kāmas not cherished as one's own; even all dhammas of the sense sphere, all dhammas of the form sphere, all dhammas of the formless sphere — being bases of craving (taṇhā) and objects of craving — are kāmas in the sense of being desirable, in the sense of arousing lust, in the sense of intoxicating: these are called objective sensuality. What is subjective sensuality? Desire (chanda) is kāma; lust is kāma; desire-and-lust is kāma; intention (saṅkappa) is kāma; lust is kāma; intention-and-lust is kāma; that which, with regard to sensual pleasures, is sensual desire (kāmacchanda), sensual lust, sensual delight, craving for sensual pleasures, sensual affection, sensual fever, sensual infatuation, sensual attachment, the flood of sensuality, the bond of sensuality, clinging to sensuality, the hindrance (nīvaraṇa) of sensual desire: > "I have seen your root, kāma: from intention, kāma, you are born. > I shall not intend toward you; thus, kāma, you shall not be." These are called subjective sensuality. "For one who desires sensual pleasure" means: for one who desires, wishes for, relishes, longs for, yearns for, and hankers after sensual pleasure — hence "for one who desires sensual pleasure."

English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.