[723] **"For sensual pleasures are variegated, sweet, delightful" (kāmā hi citrā madhurā manoramā):**
"Sensual pleasures (kāmā)" — by way of the summary (uddāna), there are two kinds of sensual pleasure: objective sensuality (vatthukāma) and subjective sensuality (kilesakāma) … these are called objective sensuality … these are called subjective sensuality.
"Variegated (citrā)": forms of various kinds¹, sounds of various kinds, odours of various kinds, tastes of various kinds, tangibles of various kinds.
"Sweet (madhurā)": for this was said by the Blessed One: "Bhikkhus, there are these five strands of sensual pleasure (kāmaguṇā). What five? Forms cognizable by the eye that are wished for, desirable, agreeable, endearing, connected with sensuality, provocative of lust; sounds cognizable by the ear; odours cognizable by the nose; tastes cognizable by the tongue; tangibles cognizable by the body that are wished for, desirable, agreeable, endearing, connected with sensuality, provocative of lust. These, bhikkhus, are the five strands of sensual pleasure. Whatever pleasure and joy arises in dependence on these five strands of sensual pleasure — this, bhikkhus, is called sensual pleasure, a pleasure of filth, a worldling's pleasure, an ignoble pleasure. I say it is not to be pursued, not to be cultivated, not to be developed, not to be made much of; that pleasure is to be feared." Hence: "for sensual pleasures are variegated, sweet."
"Delightful (manoramā)": "mind (mano)" is that which is mind (citta), intellect (mano), mentality (mānasa), heart (hadaya), the lucid (paṇḍara), mind, the mind base (manāyatana), the mind faculty (manindriya), consciousness (viññāṇa), the aggregate of consciousness (viññāṇakkhandha), the corresponding mind-consciousness element (tajjā manoviññāṇadhātu).
¹ [Siam edition footnote: the Burmese (M.) edition reads *nānāvaṇṇā rūpā*; so likewise in the similar terms following.]
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.