Viyahapannatti 6.10.322

6.10.322

annautthiyā ṇaṃ bhaṃte! evamāikkhaṃti jāva parūveṃti–evaṃ khalu savve pāṇā bhūyā jīvā sattā egaṃtadukkhaṃ vedanaṃ vedeṃti|
se kahameyaṃ bhaṃte! evaṃ?
goyamā! jaṃ ṇaṃ te annautthiyā jāva micchaṃ te evamāhaṃsu, ahaṃ puṇa goyamā! evamāikkhāmi jāva parūvemi–
atthegaiyā pāṇā bhūyā jīvā sattā egaṃtadukkhaṃ vedanaṃ vedeṃti, āhacca sāyaṃ| atthegaiyā pāṇā bhūyā jīvā sattā egaṃtasāyaṃ vedanaṃ vedeṃti, āhacca assāyaṃ| atthegaiyā pāṇā bhūyā jīvā sattā vemāyāe vedanaṃ vedeṃti–āhacca sāyamasāyaṃ|
se keṇaṭṭheṇaṃ?
goyamā! neraiyā egaṃtadukkhaṃ vedanaṃ vedeṃti, āhacca sāyaṃ| bhavanavai-vāṇamaṃtara-joisa-vemāṇiyā egaṃtasāyaṃ vedanaṃ vedeṃti, āhacca assāyaṃ| puḍhavikkāiyā jāva manussā vemāyāe vedanaṃ vedeṃti–āhacca sāyamasāyaṃ| se teṇaṭṭheṇaṃ|

"Venerable Sir, adherents of other doctrines state and declare: 'Truly, all beings, living entities, creatures, and souls experience purely painful feeling.' / How is this so, Venerable Sir?" / "Gautama, what those adherents of other doctrines state is false. But I, Gautama, state and declare: / Some beings, living entities, creatures, and souls experience purely painful feeling, and occasionally pleasurable [feeling]. Some beings, living entities, creatures, and souls experience purely pleasurable feeling, and occasionally unpleasurable [feeling]. Some beings, living entities, creatures, and souls experience feeling of mixed degree—occasionally pleasurable and unpleasurable. / For what reason? / Gautama, inhabitants of hell experience purely painful feeling, and occasionally pleasurable [feeling]. The Bhavanapatis, Vāṇavyantaras, Jyotiṣkas, and Vaimānikas experience purely pleasurable feeling, and occasionally unpleasurable [feeling]. Earth-bodied beings up to human beings experience feeling of mixed degree—occasionally pleasurable and unpleasurable. For that reason, [it is so stated]."