Viyahapannatti 20.7.792

20.7.792

"Venerable Sir, how many kinds of bondage are taught?"
"Gautama, three kinds of bondage are taught, namely: bondage caused by soul effort, immediate bondage, and mediate bondage."
"Venerable Sir, how many kinds of bondage are taught for inhabitants of hell?" "In the very same way." In this manner up to celestial beings in abodes.
"Venerable Sir, how many kinds of bondage of knowledge-obscuring karma are taught?"
"Gautama, three kinds of bondage are taught, namely: bondage caused by soul effort, immediate bondage, and mediate bondage."
"Venerable Sir, how many kinds of bondage of knowledge-obscuring karma are taught for inhabitants of hell?" "In the very same way." In this manner up to celestial beings in abodes; in this manner up to obstacle-creating [karma].
"Venerable Sir, how many kinds of bondage of the rise of knowledge-obscuring karma are taught?"
"Gautama, three kinds of bondage are taught, in the very same way." In this manner also for inhabitants of hell; in this manner up to celestial beings in abodes; in this manner up to the rise of obstacle-creating [karma].
"Venerable Sir, how many kinds of bondage of female-gender karma are taught?"
"Gautama, three kinds of bondage are taught, in the very same way."
"Venerable Sir, how many kinds of bondage of female-gender karma are taught for Asurakumāras?" "In the very same way." In this manner up to celestial beings in abodes; with the only difference being: for whichever [being] female gender exists. In this manner also for male gender; in this manner also for neuter gender up to celestial beings in abodes, with the only difference being: for whichever [being] whichever gender exists.
"Venerable Sir, how many kinds of bondage of worldview-deluding karma are taught?" "In the very same way." Unbrokenly up to celestial beings in abodes. In this manner also for conduct-deluding [karma] up to celestial beings in abodes.
In this manner, by this sequence: for physical body up to karmic body, for food instinct up to possession instinct, for black leśyā up to white leśyā, for right worldview, wrong worldview, and mixed right-wrong worldview, for sensory knowledge up to omniscience, for sensory nescience, scriptural nescience, and flawed clairvoyance. "In this manner, Venerable Sir, how many kinds of bondage are taught for the object of sensory knowledge?" up to the object of omniscience, the object of sensory nescience, the object of scriptural nescience, the object of flawed clairvoyance: "For all these items, three kinds of bondage are taught."
All of these twenty-four classes of beings are to be stated, with the only difference being that one must know whatever belongs to whichever [being]. Up to: "Venerable Sir, how many kinds of bondage of the object of flawed clairvoyance are taught for celestial beings in abodes?"
"Gautama, three kinds of bondage are taught, namely: bondage caused by soul effort, immediate bondage, and mediate bondage."
"That is so, Venerable Sir! That is so, Venerable Sir!" [Gautama] continues up to [he] wanders.