kleśa
“the defilements”
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defilements
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Cittaviśuddhiprakaraṇa
Mental afflictions/defilements (kleśa) which, through the purification of gnosis, are said to become agents of benefit rather than obstacles.
Just as copper rubbed with mercury becomes flawless gold, so through the purification of gnosis the defilements (kleśa) rightly become makers of welfare.
Śarīrārthagāthā
The defilements (kleśa), characterized through four similes (mire, seizing-demon, net, river) and whose exhaustion brings quenching.
There is no mire like lust, no seizing-demon like hatred, no net like delusion, no river like craving.
defilements|afflictions}} one is quenched.