Ajitamāṇavakapañhāniddesa

Suttapiṭaka · Khuddakanikāya · Cūḷaniddesa · Vol. 30 · Section 95

[95] **"One should not be greedy for sensual pleasures" (kāmesu nābhigijjheyya)**: as to "kāmā" — by way of summary (uddāna), sensual pleasures are twofold: objective sensuality (vatthukāma) and subjective sensuality (kilesakāma). What is objective sensuality? Agreeable forms, agreeable sounds, agreeable odours, agreeable tastes, agreeable tangibles; rugs and coverings; female and male slaves; goats and sheep; fowl and swine; elephants, cattle, horses, and mares; fields and land; silver and gold; villages, towns, and royal capitals; countryside and province; treasury and granary; and whatever object arouses lust — this is objective sensuality. Moreover: past sensual pleasures, future sensual pleasures, present sensual pleasures; internal sensual pleasures, external sensual pleasures, sensual pleasures both internal and external; inferior sensual pleasures, middling sensual pleasures, superior sensual pleasures; sensual pleasures belonging to the states of loss, human sensual pleasures, celestial sensual pleasures; sensual pleasures presently manifest, sensual pleasures created, sensual pleasures created by others; sensual pleasures possessed, sensual pleasures not possessed; sensual pleasures cherished as one's own, sensual pleasures not cherished as one's own; even all dhammas of the sense sphere, all dhammas of the form sphere, all dhammas of the formless sphere — being the basis of craving (taṇhā), the object of craving, they are sensual pleasures in the sense of being desirable, in the sense of arousing lust, in the sense of being intoxicating. These are called objective sensuality. What is subjective sensuality? Zeal (chanda) is sensuality; lust is sensuality; zeal-and-lust is sensuality; intention is sensuality; lust is sensuality; intention-and-lust is sensuality — whatever, with regard to sensual pleasures, is sensual desire (kāmacchanda), sensual lust, sensual delight, sensual craving, sensual affection, sensual thirst, sensual fever, sensual greed, sensual infatuation, sensual attachment; the flood of sensuality, the yoke of sensuality, clinging to sensuality (kāmupādāna), the hindrance of sensual desire. O sensuality, I have seen your root: from intention, sensuality, you are born. I shall not intend you; thus, sensuality, you shall be no more. These are called subjective sensuality. "Greed" (gedha) is a term for craving: that lust, infatuation … covetousness, greed, the unwholesome root. **"One should not be greedy for sensual pleasures"**: one should not be greedy for, should not be entangled in, subjective sensuality and objective sensuality — being not greedy, not bound, not infatuated, not attached; devoid of greed, having given up greed, vomited up greed, released greed, abandoned greed, relinquished greed; devoid of lust, having given up lust, vomited up lust, released lust, abandoned lust, relinquished lust; hungerless, quenched, become cool, experiencing bliss, one should dwell with a self become divine (brahmabhūta) — hence, "one should not be greedy for sensual pleasures."

English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.