(on account
of its being stored up for a long time like wine). They work through the
eye and the mind and continue to produce all beings up to Indra.
As those wines which are kept long are called "asavas" so these are also
called asavas for remaining a long time. The other alternative that
Buddhagho@sa gives is that they are called asava on account of their
producing sa@msaradukkha (sorrows of the world), _Atthasalini_, p. 48.
Contrast it with Jaina asrava (flowing in of karma matter). Finding it
difficult to translate it in one word after Buddhagho@sa, I have
translated it as "depravities," after Childers.]

[Footnote 3: See _Dhammasa@nga@ni_, p. 195.]

[Footnote 4: Buddhagho@sa's _Atthasalini_, p. 371.]

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The di@t@thasavas by clouding the mind with false metaphysical
views stand in the way of one's adopting the true Buddhistic doctrines.
The kamasavas stand in the way of one's entering into
the way of Nirva@na (_anagamimagga_) and the bhavasavas and
avijjasavas stand in the way of one's attaining arha or final
emancipation. When the _Majjhima Nikaya_ says that from the
rise of the asavas avijja rises, it evidently counts avijja there as
in some sense separate from the other asavas, such as those of
attachment and desire of existence which veil the true knowledge
about sorrow.

The afflictions (_kilesas_) do not differ much from the asavas
for they are but the specific passions in forms ordinarily familiar
to us, such as covetousness (_lobha_), anger or hatred (_dosa_),
infatuation (_moha_), arrogance, pride or vanity (_mana_), heresy
(_di@t@thi_), doubt or uncertainty (_vicikiccha_), idleness (_thina_),
boastfulness (_udhacca_), shamelessness (_ahirika_) and hardness of heart
_anottapa_); these kilesas proceed directly as a result of the asavas.
In spite of these varieties they are often counted as three (lobha,
dosa, moha) and these together are called kilesa. They are
associated with the vedanakkhandha, sannakkhandha, sa@nkharakkhandha
and vinnanakkhandha. From these arise the three kinds
of actions, of speech, of body, and of mind [Footnote ref 1].

Sila and Samadhi.

We are intertwined all through outside and inside by the
tangles of desire (_ta@nha ja@ta_), and the only way by which these
may be loosened is by the practice of right discipline (_sila_),
concentration (_samadhi_) and wisdom (_panna_). Sila briefly means
the desisting from committing all sinful deeds (_sabbapapassa
akara@nam_). W