SN27:3 Consciousness
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1"Bhikkhus, desire and lust for eye-consciousness … for ear-consciousness … for nose-consciousness … for tongue-consciousness … for body-consciousness … for mind-consciousness is a corruption of the mind.
When a bhikkhu has abandoned the mental corruption in these six cases, sn.iii.233 his mind inclines to renunciation. A mind fortified by renunciation becomes wieldy in regard to those things that are to be realized by direct knowledge."[n.274] Spk: His mind inclines to renunciation (nekkhammaninnaṁ c’ assa cittaṁ hoti): The mind of serenity and insight inclines to the nine supramundane states. Those things to be realized by direct knowledge (abhiññā sacchikaraṇiyesu dhammesu): the things pertaining to the six direct knowledges. Spk does not gloss the verb khāyati, lit. "appears."
1Sāvatthinidānaṁ. "Yo, bhikkhave, cakkhuviññāṇasmiṁ chandarāgo, cittasseso upakkileso. Yo sotaviññāṇasmiṁ … yo ghānaviññāṇasmiṁ … yo jivhāviññāṇasmiṁ … yo kāyaviññāṇasmiṁ … yo manoviññāṇasmiṁ chandarāgo, cittasseso upakkileso.
Yato kho, bhikkhave, bhikkhuno imesu chasu ṭhānesu cetaso upakkileso pahīno hoti, nekkhammaninnañcassa cittaṁ hoti. Nekkhammaparibhāvitaṁ cittaṁ kammaniyaṁ khāyati, abhiññā sacchikaraṇīyesu dhammesū"ti.
Tatiyaṁ.
