[9] **Those sensual pleasures (kāmā) fall away**: either those sensual pleasures fall away, or he falls away from sensual pleasures.
How do those sensual pleasures fall away? While he himself yet remains, kings carry off that wealth (bhogā), or thieves carry it off, or fire burns it, or water sweeps it away, or unloved heirs carry it off, or he does not recover what was buried away,[1] or undertakings badly managed come to ruin,[2] or there arises in the family a squanderer of the family[3] who scatters, dissipates, and destroys that wealth — and impermanence itself is the eighth. Thus those sensual pleasures dwindle, fall away, are utterly ruined, are relinquished,[4] disappear, and perish.
How does he fall away from sensual pleasures? While that very wealth yet remains, he passes away, dies, disappears, and perishes. Thus he dwindles, falls away, is utterly ruined, relinquishes, disappears, and perishes from sensual pleasures.
Thieves carry it off, kings [confiscate it],
fire burns it, it is lost;
then at the end one abandons
the body together with one's belongings.
Understanding this, the wise person
should both enjoy and give;
having given and having enjoyed according to his means,
blameless, he goes to heaven, that place.
Those sensual pleasures fall away.
Footnote: [1] Yu. reads *kāmayānassa*.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.