Dighanikaya 22.380_2

22.380_2

Tattha ko vedayatīti na koci satto vā puggalo vā vedayati. Kassa vedanāti na kassaci sattassa vā puggalassa vā vedanā. Kiṃ kāraṇā vedanāti vatthuārammaṇāva panassa vedanā, tasmā esa evaṃ pajānāti ‘‘taṃ taṃ sukhādīnaṃ vatthuṃ ārammaṇaṃ katvā vedanāva vedayati taṃ pana vedanāya pavattiṃ upādāya’ahaṃ vedayāmī’ti vohāramattaṃ hotī’’ti. Evaṃ vatthuṃ ārammaṇaṃ katvā vedanāva vedayatīti sallakkhento esa ‘‘sukhaṃ vedanaṃ vedayāmīti pajānātī’’ti veditabbo cittalapabbate aññataratthero viya.

Therein, "who experiences?": no being or person experiences. "Whose is the feeling?": the feeling is not that of any being or person. "Due to what cause is there feeling?": rather, his feeling arises with a base and an object as its cause. Therefore, he understands thus: "Having made that particular base and object of pleasure and so forth its object, feeling itself experiences; and on the basis of that occurrence of feeling, there is merely the conventional expression 'I experience.'" Discerning thus that feeling itself experiences having made the base its object, he should be understood as one who "understands: 'I experience a pleasant feeling'", like a certain thera on Mount Cittala.