Dighanikaya 19.320

19.320

Tattha ete avidvāti ete āmagandhe ahaṃ avidvā, na jānāmīti attho. Idha brūhi dhīrāti te me tvaṃ idha dhīra paṇḍita, brūhi, vada. Kenāvaṭā vāti pajā kurutūti katamena kilesāvaraṇena āvaritā pajā pūtikā vāyati. Āpāyikāti apāyūpagā. Nivutabrahmalokāti nivuto pihito brahmaloko assāti nivutabrahmaloko. Katamena kilesena pajāya brahmalokūpago maggo nivuto pihito paṭicchannoti pucchati.

Here, "not knowing these": I, not knowing, not understanding these stenches of putridity, is the meaning. "Declare it here, wise one": wise, discerning one, declare, speak this to me here. "Obstructed by what does humanity reek?": obstructed by what obstruction of defilement does humanity give off a foul smell? "Bound for states of deprivation": going to states of deprivation. "With the Brahmā world closed off": one for whom the Brahmā world is closed off, shut, is one with the Brahmā world closed off. He asks: obstructed, shut, concealed by what defilement is the path leading to the Brahmā world for humanity?