• Numbered Discourses 7.12 Aį¹…guttara Nikāya 7.12
  • 2. Tendencies 2. Anusayavagga

Underlying Tendencies (2nd) Dutiyaanusayasutta

ā€œMendicants, the spiritual life is lived to give up and cut out these seven underlying tendencies. ā€œSattannaṁ, bhikkhave, anusayānaṁ pahānāya samucchedāya brahmacariyaṁ vussati. What seven? Katamesaṁ sattannaṁ? The underlying tendencies of sensual desire, repulsion, views, doubt, conceit, desire to be reborn, and ignorance. Kāmarāgānusayassa pahānāya samucchedāya brahmacariyaṁ vussati, paį¹­ighānusayassa …pe… diį¹­į¹­hānusayassa … vicikicchānusayassa … mānānusayassa … bhavarāgānusayassa … avijjānusayassa pahānāya samucchedāya brahmacariyaṁ vussati. The spiritual life is lived to give up and cut out these seven underlying tendencies. Imesaṁ kho, bhikkhave, sattannaṁ anusayānaṁ pahānāya samucchedāya brahmacariyaṁ vussati.

When a mendicant has given up the underlying tendencies of sensual desire, repulsion, views, doubt, conceit, desire to be reborn, and ignorance—cut them off at the root, made them like a palm stump, obliterated them, so they are unable to arise in the future—Yato ca kho, bhikkhave, bhikkhuno kāmarāgānusayo pahÄ«no hoti ucchinnamÅ«lo tālāvatthukato anabhāvaį¹…kato āyatiṁ anuppādadhammo. Paį¹­ighānusayo …pe… diį¹­į¹­hānusayo … vicikicchānusayo … mānānusayo … bhavarāgānusayo … avijjānusayo pahÄ«no hoti ucchinnamÅ«lo tālāvatthukato anabhāvaį¹…kato āyatiṁ anuppādadhammo. they’re called a mendicant who has cut off craving, cast off the fetters, and by rightly comprehending conceit has made an end of suffering.ā€ Ayaṁ vuccati, bhikkhave, bhikkhu acchecchi taṇhaṁ, vivattayi saṁyojanaṁ, sammā mānābhisamayā antamakāsi dukkhassÄā€ti.

Dutiyaṁ.