Viyahapannatti 14.2.600

14.2.600

"How many kinds of madness, Venerable Sir, have been expounded?"
"Gautama! Two kinds of madness have been expounded, namely: through yakṣa-possession, and through the rise of deluding karma. Therein, that which is through yakṣa-possession is experienced with relative ease and released with relative ease. Therein, that which is through the rise of deluding karma is experienced with relative difficulty and released with relative difficulty."
"For hell-inhabitants, Venerable Sir, how many kinds of madness have been expounded?"
"Gautama! Two kinds of madness have been expounded, namely: through yakṣa-possession, and through the rise of deluding karma."
"For what reason, Venerable Sir, is it said: 'For hell-inhabitants two kinds of madness have been expounded, namely: through yakṣa-possession, and through the rise of deluding karma'?"
"Gautama! A deity may cast inauspicious pudgalas upon him; and through that casting of inauspicious pudgalas he would incur the madness of yakṣa-possession, or through the rise of deluding karma he would incur deluding madness. For that reason, Gautama, it is said: 'For hell-inhabitants two kinds of madness have been expounded, namely: through yakṣa-possession, and through the rise of deluding karma.'"
"For the Asurakumāras, Venerable Sir, how many kinds of madness have been expounded?"
"Gautama! Two kinds of madness have been expounded, namely: through yakṣa-possession, and through the rise of deluding karma."
"For what reason, Venerable Sir, is it said: 'For the Asurakumāras two kinds of madness have been expounded, namely: through yakṣa-possession, and through the rise of deluding karma'?"
"Gautama! A deity of greater supernatural power may cast inauspicious pudgalas upon him; and through that casting of inauspicious pudgalas he would incur the madness of yakṣa-possession, or through the rise of deluding karma he would incur deluding madness. For that reason, [it is said as above] up to 'through the rise [of deluding karma]'. In this manner, up to the Stanitakumāras. For earth-bodied beings up to humans: for these, as for the hell-inhabitants; for the Vāṇamantaras, Jyotiṣkas, and Vaimānikas, as for the Asurakumāras."