7. Uddita Sutta, Discourse on
Being Ensnared
67. (The deva said:)
"By what is the world* ensnared?**
What besets the world?
What shuts off the world?
On what does the world stand?"
(The Bhagava said:)
"The world is ensnared by Craving
Ageing besets the world.
Death shuts off the world,***
The world stands on dukkha."
End of the Uddita Sutta,
the seventh in this vagga.
1. the world: loka: By this is meant both the six internal sense bases,
such as the eye-base, and the external sense-bases such as visible objects.
2. ensnared: uddita: another interpretation of this term is "hooked
up' or 'tied up'.
3. Death shuts off the world: Although just a fleeting thought-moment of
death-consciousness (cuti citta) stands between one existence and another, a
being is unable to remember his acts of the previous life because of the throes
of death.
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