[250] **"Kāme"** in the passage "Having abandoned sensual pleasures, refrained from talk (kāme pahāya virato kathāhi)": by way of summary (uddānato)¹ there are two kinds of sensual pleasures — objective sensuality (vatthukāma) and subjective sensuality (kilesakāma). … These are called objective sensuality. … These are called subjective sensuality.
**"Having abandoned sensual pleasures (kāme pahāya)"**: having fully understood objective sensuality, and having abandoned, relinquished, dispelled, brought to an end, and reduced to non-existence subjective sensuality — thus, "having abandoned sensual pleasures."
**"Refrained from talk (virato kathāhi)"**: perplexity (kathaṃkathā) is a term for doubt (vicikicchā) — doubt regarding suffering (dukkha) … consternation of mind (citta), mental perplexity. One who is averse to, refrained from, abstained from perplexity, gone out from it, released from it, freed from it, detached from it, dwells with a mind made free of boundaries — thus too one is "refrained from talk."
Or alternatively: one who is averse to, refrained from, abstained from the thirty-two kinds of pointless talk (tiracchānakathā), gone out from them, released from them, freed from them, detached from them, dwells with a mind made free of boundaries — thus too one is "refrained from talk." Hence, "having abandoned sensual pleasures, refrained from talk."
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[Siam Raṭṭha edition footnote: ¹ Burmese ed.: *assādato*. ² Burmese ed.: *nissaraṇato*. ³ Burmese ed.: *hoti*. ⁴ Burmese ed.: this reading is absent.]
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.