3: The Book of the Threes
113. Bound for the Plane of Misery
- DG BB TBW © Translated from the Pali by Bhikkhu Bodhi (More copyright information)
1"Bhikkhus, there are three who, if they do not abandon this fault of theirs, are bound for the plane of misery, bound for hell. Which three? (1) One who, though not celibate, claims to be celibate; (2) one who slanders a pure celibate leading a pure celibate life with a groundless charge of non-celibacy; and (3) one who holds such a doctrine and view as this: ‘There is no fault in sensual pleasures,’ and then falls into indulgence in sensual pleasures. [n.579] So kāmesu pātavyataṁ āpajjati (Be adds tāya before kāmesu, probably representing tāya diṭṭhiyā). Mp: "Indulgence: (the view that) they are to be drunk, to be enjoyed; (he thinks they are) to be enjoyed with a mind without hesitation, just as water is to be drunk by one who is thirsty" (pivitabbataṁ paribhuñjitabbataṁ nirāsaṅkena cittena pipāsitassa pānīyapivanasadisaṁ paribhuñjitabbataṁ). Ps II 371,22–24, commenting on pātabyataṁ āpajjanti at MN I 305, 21, says: "He falls into (the view that) one should drink up sensual objects with the defilement of sensuality, that they are to be enjoyed according to one's pleasure" (te vatthukāmesu kilesakāmena pātabyataṁ pivitabbataṁ, yathāruci paribhuñjitabbataṁ āpajjantī ti attho). Pātabba (= pātavya) occurs as an optative participle of pivati, to drink, at Vin II 208,11. MN 45.2, I 305, ascribes this view to "ascetics and brahmins" who "consort with women wanderers wearing their hair in a topknot." These are the three who, if they do not abandon this fault of theirs, are bound for the plane of misery, bound for hell."
1"Tayome, bhikkhave, āpāyikā nerayikā idamappahāya. Katame tayo? Yo ca abrahmacārī brahmacāripaṭiñño, yo ca suddhaṁ brahmacariyaṁ carantaṁ amūlakena abrahmacariyena anuddhaṁseti, yo cāyaṁ evaṁvādī evaṁdiṭṭhi: ‘Natthi kāmesu doso’ti, so tāya kāmesu pātabyataṁ āpajjati. Ime kho, bhikkhave, tayo āpāyikā nerayikā idamappahāyā"ti.
Paṭhamaṁ.
