4.
The Second Discourse on Beings
64.
Thus have I heard -
On one occasion the Blessed One was dwelling at Sāvatthī in Jeta's Grove, Anāthapiṇḍika's park.
Now at that time the people of Sāvatthī for the most part were attached to sensual pleasures, lustful, greedy, bound, infatuated, immersed, blinded, become intoxicated, dwelling in sensual pleasures.
Then the Blessed One, having dressed in the earlier period of the day, taking his bowl and robe, entered Sāvatthī for almsfood. The Blessed One saw those people of Sāvatthī for the most part attached to sensual pleasures, lustful, greedy, bound, infatuated, immersed, blinded, become intoxicated, dwelling in sensual pleasures.
Then the Blessed One, having understood this matter, at that time uttered this inspired utterance -
Bound by the kinsman of the heedless, like fish in the mouth of a trap;
They follow ageing and death, like a milk-sucking calf its mother." The fourth.