[519] **They are afflicted** (ruppanti): in the passage "Heedless people are afflicted amid forms" (ruppanti rūpesu janā pamattā), "they are afflicted" means: they are afflicted, agitated, oppressed, stricken; they become distressed and grieved. Through disease of the eye they are afflicted, agitated, oppressed, stricken; they become distressed and grieved; through disease of the ear … through the contact of gadflies, mosquitoes, wind, sun, and creeping creatures they are afflicted, agitated, oppressed, stricken; they become distressed and grieved. Thus, "they are afflicted amid forms."
Or else: when the eye is failing, declining, dwindling away, changing, vanishing, disappearing, they are afflicted … they become grieved. When the ear, the nose, the tongue, the body; form, sound, odour, taste, tangible object; family, company, dwelling, gain, fame, praise, happiness; robes, almsfood, lodging, or medicinal requisites for the sick is failing, declining, dwindling away, changing, vanishing, disappearing, they are afflicted, agitated, oppressed, stricken; they become distressed and grieved. Thus too, "they are afflicted amid forms."
**People** (janā): khattiyas and brāhmaṇas, vessas and suddas, householders and those gone forth, devas and human beings.
**Heedless** (pamattā): heedlessness (pamāda) should be spoken of. The giving loose of the mind (citta), the repeated allowance of its giving loose, to misconduct by body, misconduct by speech, or misconduct by mind, or to the five strands of sensual pleasure; or, with regard to the development of wholesome dhammas, the absence of persevering practice, halting practice, lax conduct, the laying down of zeal, the laying down of the task, non-pursuit, non-development, non-cultivation, non-resolution, non-application — heedlessness. Whatever heedlessness of such a kind, being heedless, the state of being heedless — this is called heedlessness. People endowed with this heedlessness are "heedless." Hence, "Heedless people are afflicted amid forms."
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.