[513] **"The eyes are not clear; hearing is not easy"** (nettā na suddhā savanaṃ na phāsu): "The eyes are not clear" means: the eyes are not clean, not pure, not purified, not bright. "I do not see forms (rūpa) with the eye as [I did before]" — therefore, "the eyes are not clear."
**"Hearing is not easy"** means: the ear is not clean, not pure, not purified, not bright. "I do not hear sounds with the ear as [I did before]" — therefore, "the eyes are not clear; hearing is not easy."
#1 Burmese ed.: *vītavaṇṇo*. Likewise below. #2 Burmese ed.: *antarāva*. Likewise below.
#3 Burmese ed.: *jiṇṇohamasmīti*. #4 Burmese ed.: *vigacchitavaṇṇo*. #5 Burmese ed.: *rūpe*.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.