Dassanenapahātabbahetukaduka

Abhidhammapiṭaka · Paṭṭhāna (4) · Vol. 43 · Section 626

[626] A phenomenon (dhamma) without roots to be abandoned by seeing (na-dassanena-pahātabbahetuka) is a condition, by prenascence condition (purejāta-paccaya), for a phenomenon without roots to be abandoned by seeing: object-prenascence (ārammaṇa-purejāta) and base-prenascence (vatthu-purejāta). Object-prenascence: one contemplates with insight the eye … the base (vatthu) as impermanent …, relishes it, and delights in it; with that as object, lust (rāga) without roots to be abandoned by seeing arises; restlessness (uddhacca) …; grief (domanassa) without roots to be abandoned by seeing arises. With the divine … Abbreviated. Base-prenascence: abbreviated. A phenomenon without roots to be abandoned by seeing is a condition, by prenascence condition, for a phenomenon with roots to be abandoned by seeing (dassanena-pahātabbahetuka): object-prenascence and base-prenascence. Object-prenascence: one relishes and delights in the eye … the base; with that as object, lust with roots to be abandoned by seeing arises; view (diṭṭhi) …; doubt (vicikicchā) …; grief with roots to be abandoned by seeing arises. Base-prenascence: abbreviated. A phenomenon without roots to be abandoned by seeing is a condition, by prenascence condition, for a phenomenon with roots to be abandoned by seeing and for a phenomenon without roots to be abandoned by seeing: object-prenascence and base-prenascence. Object-prenascence: with the eye … the base as object, the aggregates (khandhā) accompanied by doubt, and delusion (moha), arise. Base-prenascence: abbreviated.

English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.

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