Saratthappakasini 22.10.5.99

22.10.5.99

Yaṃ mahāsamuddoti ettha yanti samayassa paccāmasanaṃ. Bhummatthe cetaṃ paccattavacananti āha ‘‘yasmiṃ samaye’’ti. So ca samayo ayanti dassento ‘‘pañcame sūriye uṭṭhite’’ti āha. Paricchedaṃ na vadāmi paricchedakārikāya aggamaggavijjāya anadhigatattā. Sunakho viya vaṭṭanissito bālo asavasabhāvato. Gaddulo viya diṭṭhibandho. Sakkāyo tassa asavasabhāvato. Puthujjanassa sakkāyānuparivattananti ‘‘santāne sattavohāro’’ti taṃ tato aññaṃ katvā bhedena niddeso.

Regarding “which great ocean” (yaṃ mahāsamuddo): here, “which” (yaṃ) refers to the time. And since this nominative case is used in a locative sense, he says: “at which time.” And showing what that time is, he says: “when the fifth sun has arisen.” I do not state a limitation, because the highest-path knowledge that produces the limitation has not been attained. The fool, dependent on the round of rebirth, is like a dog because he has no control over himself. The bond of wrong view is like a leash. The individual personality belongs to him because he has no control over it. The ordinary person’s turning after the individual personality is designated separately by differentiating it from that, thinking: “the convention of a ‘being’ applies to the continuity [of aggregates].”