[175] **"Would cross over the clinging in the world" (tare loke visattikaṃ):** "clinging" (visattikā) is a term for craving (taṇhā), that is: lust, passion … covetousness, greed, the unwholesome root. **"Clinging" (visattikā):** in what sense is it "clinging"? … It is spread out, it is extended: therefore it is "clinging." **"In the world" (loke):** in the world of the states of loss … in the world of the sense bases (āyatana). **"Would cross over the clinging in the world":** whatever clinging there is in the world — being mindful, one would cross over, cross beyond, cross out of, transcend, and pass beyond that clinging in the world; therefore, "would cross over the clinging in the world."
Therefore that brahmin said:
"And in that I delight, O Great Seer — the supreme Dhamma,
having understood which, wandering mindful,
one would cross over the clinging in the world."
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.