Savitakkaduka

Abhidhammapiṭaka · Paṭṭhāna (4) · Vol. 43 · Section 661

[661] A phenomenon without thought (avitakko dhammo) is a condition for a phenomenon without thought by prenascence condition (purejāta-paccaya): object-prenascence (ārammaṇa-purejāta) and base-prenascence (vatthu-purejāta). Object-prenascence: one contemplates with insight the eye (cakkhu) … the base (vatthu) as impermanent (aniccato) …, relishes it, and delights in it; taking that as object, thought (vitakka) arises. With the divine … the tangible-object base (phoṭṭhabbāyatana) is a condition for body-consciousness (kāyaviññāṇa). Base-prenascence: the eye base (cakkhāyatana) is a condition for eye-consciousness (cakkhuviññāṇa); the body base (kāyāyatana) …; the base is a condition for the aggregates (khandhā) without thought and for thought by prenascence condition. A phenomenon without thought is a condition for a phenomenon with thought (savitakko dhammo) by prenascence condition: object-prenascence and base-prenascence. Object-prenascence: one contemplates with insight the eye … the base as impermanent …, relishes it, and delights in it; taking that as object, aggregates with thought arise. Base-prenascence: the base is a condition for the aggregates with thought by prenascence condition. A phenomenon without thought is a condition for a phenomenon with thought and for a phenomenon without thought by prenascence condition: object-prenascence and base-prenascence. Object-prenascence: one contemplates with insight the eye … the base as impermanent …, relishes it, and delights in it; taking that as object, aggregates with thought and thought arise. Base-prenascence: the base is a condition for the aggregates with thought and for thought by prenascence condition.

English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.

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