Commentary MN 62: Mahaaraahulovaada sutta.m, no 1.
Dear friends,
I shall give some fragments from the Commentary to this sutta, a little part
at a time. I would like to share this with Dimitri who read the Commentary,
but I understood that he is so busy. I am reading this in Thai, but I am
waiting for the arrival of the Pali text so that later on I have both Pali
and Thai. The verse on lobha at the end is a very free translation.

The Commentary, the papa~ncasuudanii, states why the Buddha explained to
Rahula the meditation on rupa and why Sariputta explained to him aanaapaana
sati. Rahula was so attached to his body, to attabhaava.
As we read in the sutta, <Aayasmaa pi kho raahulo... Bhagavanta.m
pi.t.thito pi.t.thitoanubandhi. > Rahula followed the Buddha closely. He did
not leave him out of sight. He admired the Buddha with his thirtytwo bodily
characteristics of a Great Man and his halo. He was thinking that he himself
was handsome, and when the Buddha would be the Emperor of the four
continents, he would obtain the rank of advisor.
The Buddha walked ahead and considered that Rahula was distracted by form
(ruupaaramma.na) and that he had attachment. He thought, "Raahula is my son,
he walks behind me, he has attachment (chandaraaga) that is of a householder
(worldly), it concerns his body (attabhaava), thinking, I am handsome, I
have a fair complexion..." We read further on that the Buddha considered
that Rahula was going the wrong way, that he was erring. When Rahula's
defilements would become greater afterwards, he would neither see his own
benefit, nor that of someone else nor of both. He would have an unhappy
rebirth, such as in hell, as an animal as a peta, he would be in the cycle
of birth and death without end.

Attachment (lobha) leads to ruin, and thus lobha becomes worse.
Peril occurs but people do not realize that there is peril.
People in the world do not know cause and effect.
There is dense darkness when attachment overwhelms people.