[66] **It does not shine because of stinginess and heedlessness** (vevicchā pamādā nappakāsati): *Vevicchaṃ* (avarice) is a term for the five kinds of stinginess (macchariya): stinginess as to dwellings (āvāsamacchariya), stinginess as to family (kulamacchariya), stinginess as to gain (lābhamacchariya), stinginess as to praise (vaṇṇamacchariya), and stinginess as to Dhamma (dhammamacchariya). Such stinginess, the act of being stingy, the state of being stingy, avarice, meanness, niggardliness, the tightfisted state of the mind (citta) — this is called stinginess. Moreover, stinginess regarding the aggregates (khandha) is also stinginess; stinginess regarding the elements (dhātu) is also stinginess; stinginess regarding the sense bases (āyatana) is also stinginess. Grasping is called stinginess.
Heedlessness (pamāda) should be described: the letting loose of the mind, the repeated giving over to letting loose, whether in bodily misconduct, in verbal misconduct, in mental misconduct, or amid the five cords of sensual pleasure; or, with regard to the development of wholesome dhammas, acting without respect, acting without persistence, halting activity, slack behavior, the abandoning of desire [to act], the abandoning of the task, non-practice, non-development, not cultivating repeatedly, non-resolution, non-application — heedlessness. Such heedlessness, the act of being heedless, the state of being heedless — this is called heedlessness.
**It does not shine because of stinginess and heedlessness**: because of this stinginess and because of this heedlessness, the world does not shine, does not gleam, does not glow, does not radiate; it is not recognized, it is not discerned. Therefore: "It does not shine because of stinginess and heedlessness."
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.