Bhavatanhaa
From: Nina van Gorkom
Message: 564
Date: 2002-07-17
Dear Jim, another text of the Vis which is interesting:
XXII, 72: In the case of clingings, since according to what is given in the
texts all worldly states are sense desires, that is, sense desires as object
(see Nd I, 1-20), and so greed both for the fine material and the immaterial
falls under sense-desire clinging. Consequently that sense-desire clinging
is eliminated by the fourth knowledge. The rest are eliminated by the first
knowledge.
This seems to be the same as the text of the Sumangalavilasini. Thus it all
depends under which heading dhammas are classified. As to Mahaniddesa,
difficult to find that in my Thai edition, but it must be in the first
suttaniddesa.
Best wishes, from Nina.