Aṅguttara Nikāya - The Numerical Discourses

7: The Book of the Sevens

12. Underlying Tendencies (2)

1"Bhikkhus, the spiritual life is lived to abandon and eradicate the seven underlying tendencies. What seven? The underlying tendency to sensual lust, the underlying tendency to aversion, the underlying tendency to views, the underlying tendency to doubt, the underlying tendency to conceit, the underlying tendency to lust for existence, and the underlying tendency to ignorance. The spiritual life is lived to abandon and eradicate these seven underlying tendencies.

2"When a bhikkhu has abandoned the underlying tendency to sensual lust, cut it off at the root, made it like a palm stump, obliterated it so that it is no more subject to future arising; when he has abandoned the underlying tendency to aversion … the underlying tendency to views … the underlying tendency to doubt … the underlying tendency to conceit … the underlying tendency to lust for existence … the underlying tendency to ignorance, cut it off at the root, made it like a palm stump, obliterated it so that it is no more subject to future arising, he is then called a bhikkhu without underlying tendencies, [n.1460] Niranusayo is not in Be or Ee. Ee notes variant readings in manuscripts. But see SN IV 205,17, where Be has niranusayo, as against Ce and Ee pahīnarāgānusayo. one who has cut off craving, stripped off the fetter, and by completely breaking through conceit, has made an end of suffering."

1"Sattannaṁ, bhikkhave, anusayānaṁ pahānāya samucchedāya brahmacariyaṁ vussati. Katamesaṁ sattannaṁ? Kāmarāgānusayassa pahānāya samucchedāya brahmacariyaṁ vussati, paṭighānusayassa … pe … diṭṭhānusayassa … vicikicchānusayassa … mānānusayassa … bhavarāgānusayassa … avijjānusayassa pahānāya samucchedāya brahmacariyaṁ vussati. Imesaṁ kho, bhikkhave, sattannaṁ anusayānaṁ pahānāya samucchedāya brahmacariyaṁ vussati.

2Yato ca kho, bhikkhave, bhikkhuno kāmarāgānusayo pahīno hoti ucchinnamūlo tālāvatthukato anabhāvaṅkato āyatiṁ anuppādadhammo. Paṭighānusayo … pe … diṭṭhānusayo … vicikicchānusayo … mānānusayo … bhavarāgānusayo … avijjānusayo pahīno hoti ucchinnamūlo tālāvatthukato anabhāvaṅkato āyatiṁ anuppādadhammo. Ayaṁ vuccati, bhikkhave, bhikkhu acchecchi taṇhaṁ, vivattayi saṁyojanaṁ, sammā mānābhisamayā antamakāsi dukkhassā"ti.


Dutiyaṁ.

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