Samyuttanikaya 22.10.6.100

22.10.6.100

Aṭṭhame tasmāti yasmā diṭṭhigaddulanissitāya taṇhārajjuyā sakkāyathambhe upanibaddho vaṭṭanissito bālaputhujjano sabbiriyāpathesu khandhapañcakaṃ nissāyeva pavattati, yasmā vā dīgharattamidaṃ cittaṃ saṃkiliṭṭhaṃ rāgena dosena mohena, tasmā. Cittasaṃkilesāti sunhātāpi hi sattā cittasaṃkileseneva saṃkilissanti, malaggahitasarīrāpi cittassa vodānattā visujjhanti. Tenāhu porāṇā –

In the eighth, “therefore”: because an ordinary, foolish person, dependent on the round of rebirth and tied to the pillar of individual personality by the rope of craving dependent on the leash of wrong view, proceeds in all bodily postures only dependent on the five aggregates; or because for a long time this mind has been defiled by lust, by hatred, and by delusion; therefore. “By defilement of mind”: for even beings who are well washed become defiled simply through defilement of mind, while those whose bodies are covered in dirt are purified through the purification of mind. Therefore the ancients said: