The source of passion, hatred, and discursive thoughts

Śag_11.1

Passion and hatred, O Blessed One—what is their source? Aversion and delight, and this horripilation—whence are they? And from what do mental musings spring up, [which] cling [to the mind] as boys cling to a nurse?

Śag_11.2

Born of affection, self-arisen, like the trunk-shoots of a banyan tree, severally fastened upon sensual objects, like the māluvā creeper in the forest.

Śag_11.3

Passion and hatred have this for their source; aversion and delight and this horripilation are from this; and from this spring up the mental musings, [which] cling [to the mind] as boys cling to a nurse.

Śag_11.4

Those who fully know them, [knowing] from what they are sourced—those people, O Yakṣa, dispel them; they cross over the ocean-flood here, the never-before-crossed, unto no-more-becoming.