[67] **"I say that hankering is the adhesive" (jappābhilepanaṃ brūmi):** hankering (jappā) is a term for craving (taṇhā) — that is, lust, infatuating passion, fondness, compliance, delight, delight-and-lust, infatuating passion of the mind (citta), longing, besottedness, cleaving, greed, pervading greed, attachment, the mire, agitation, deceit, the genetrix, the begetter [of beings together with suffering], the seamstress, the ensnaring net, the flowing river, the clinging (visattikā), sleep, the pervading, the accumulator, the companion, aspiration, the conduit to existence (bhavanetti), the jungle, the thicket, intimacy, affection, longing regard, being bound; hope, hoping, the state of hoping; hope for forms, hope for sounds, hope for odors, hope for tastes, hope for tangibles, hope for gain, hope for wealth, hope for sons, hope for life; hankering, hankering after, hankering over, the act of hankering, the state of hankering; greediness, the act of greediness, the state of greediness; fawning, desire for what is agreeable; unrighteous lust, inordinate greed; wanting, the act of wanting; wishing, yearning, full aspiration; craving for sensual pleasures, craving for existence, craving for non-existence; craving for form, craving for the formless, craving for cessation; craving for forms, craving for sounds, craving for odors, craving for tastes, craving for tangibles, craving for mental phenomena; the flood, the yoke, the tie, clinging; the obstruction, the hindrance (nīvaraṇa), the covering, the bondage; the defilement, the latent tendency, the obsession; the creeper, avarice; the root of suffering (dukkha), the source of suffering, the origin of suffering; Māra's snare, Māra's hook, Māra's domain, Māra's range, Māra's bond; the river of craving, the net of craving, the leash of craving, the ocean of craving; covetousness (abhijjhā), greed (lobha), the unwholesome root — this is called hankering. It is the smearing, the sticking, the binding, the defilement of the world. By this hankering the world is smeared, besmeared, sullied, thoroughly defiled, stained, mixed up [with it], stuck, hitched, and impeded. **"I say":** I say, tell, teach, declare, establish, disclose, analyze, elucidate, and reveal. Hence, "I say that hankering is the adhesive."
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.