5.
The Discourse on the Mental Fetter of Craving
15.
This was said by the Blessed One, said by the Worthy One, thus have I heard:
"I do not, monks, perceive any other single mental fetter by which mental fetter fettered, beings transmigrate and wander through the round of rebirths for a long time, as does, monks, the mental fetter of craving. For, monks, fettered by the mental fetter of craving, beings transmigrate and wander through the round of rebirths for a long time." The Blessed One said this meaning. Therein this is said:
"A person with craving as companion, wandering for a long course;
The state here and the state elsewhere, does not pass beyond the round of rebirths.
"Having known this danger, craving as the origin of suffering;
Free from craving, without grasping, a mindful monk should wander forth."
This meaning too was spoken by the Blessed One, thus have I heard. The fifth.