EsanādisuttaSearches, Etc.
“Tisso imā, bhikkhave, esanā.“Mendicants, there are these three searches. Katamā tisso?What three? Kāmesanā, bhavesanā, brahmacariyesanā”ti vitthāretabbaṁ.The search for sensual pleasures, the search for continued existence, and the search for a spiritual path. …”
Esanā vidhā āsavo, bhavo ca dukkhatā tisso; Khilaṁ malañca nīgho ca, vedanā taṇhā tasināya cāti.
(Bojjhaṅgasaṁyuttassa esanāpeyyālaṁ vivekanissitato vitthāretabbaṁ.)(Tell in full as in SN 45.161–170.)