[735] **"And one should not take anything in the world as one's own" (na ca mamāyetha kiñci lokasmiṃ):** "Taking as one's own" (mamatta) — there are two kinds of taking as one's own: taking as one's own through craving (taṇhā, taṇhāmamatta) and taking as one's own through view (diṭṭhimamatta) … this is taking as one's own through craving … this is taking as one's own through view. Having abandoned taking as one's own through craving and relinquished taking as one's own through view, one should not take as one's own, should not grasp, should not cling to, should not adhere to the eye; one should not take as one's own, should not grasp, should not cling to, should not adhere to the ear, the nose, the tongue, the body; forms, sounds, odours, tastes, tangibles; family, group, dwelling; gain, fame, praise, pleasure; robes, almsfood, lodging, and the requisite of medicines for the sick; the sensual element (dhātu), the form element, the formless element; sensual existence, form existence, formless existence; percipient existence, non-percipient existence, neither-percipient-nor-non-percipient existence; one-constituent existence, four-constituent existence, five-constituent existence; the past, the future, the present; what is seen, heard, sensed, and dhammas to be cognized.
**"Anything" (kiñci):** anything pertaining to form, pertaining to feeling (vedanā), pertaining to perception, pertaining to volitional formations, pertaining to consciousness. **"In the world" (lokasmiṃ):** in the world of the states of loss … in the world of the sense bases (āyatana). Hence: "and one should not take anything in the world as one's own." Therefore the Blessed One said:
One should not be wanton with the eyes,
one should shield the ear from village talk,
one should not hanker after tastes,
and one should not take anything in the world as one's own.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.