Samyuttanikaya 22.10.1.93_2

22.10.1.93_2

Evameva khoti ettha sote patitapuriso viya vaṭṭasannissito bālaputhujjano daṭṭhabbo, ubhatotīre kāsādayo viya dubbalapañcakkhandhā, ‘‘ime gahitāpi maṃ tāretuṃ na sakkhissantī’’ti tassa purisassa ajānitvā gahaṇaṃ viya ime khandhā ‘‘na mayhaṃ sahāyā’’ti bālaputhujjanassa ajānitvā catūhi gāhehi gahaṇaṃ, gahitagahitānaṃ palujjanattā purisassa byasanappatti viya catūhi gāhehi gahitānaṃ khandhānaṃ vipariṇāme bālaputhujjanassa sokādibyasanappatti veditabbā. Paṭhamaṃ.

"Even so" (evameva kho): here, like the man who has fallen into the stream, the foolish worldling dependent on the round of rebirths should be seen; like the kāsa-grass and so forth on both banks, the weak five aggregates; like that man's grasping without knowing that "even if grasped, these will not be able to carry me across," the foolish worldling's grasping of these aggregates with the four graspings without knowing that "they are no help to me"; like the man's arrival at ruin due to the breaking off of whatever was grasped, the foolish worldling's arrival at ruin such as sorrow due to the alteration of the aggregates grasped with the four graspings should be understood. The first.