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{ka-ma.}
UMK-USL p5
n. 1. pleasure. 2. desire; want. 3. the five senses. 4. the 11 planes of sensual existence = 4 miserable planes (hell to animal-world) + 1 human plane (earthly world) + 6 celestial planes (unseen worlds).PTS p203-206
kāma
1. objective: pleasantness, pleasure-giving, an object of sensual enjoyment
2. subjective: (a) enjoyment, pleasure on occasion of sense,
(b) sense-desire
Definition of kāma as two folds:
vatthu-kāmā
kilesa-kāma
• "kāma as sensual pleasure finds its most marked application in the sphere of sexual: kāmesu micchācārin , transgression in lusts, sinning in lusts of the flesh or violating the third rule of conduct equivalent to a-brahmacariyā, inchastity " -- PTS p203-204
UKT: The "life-form" known as the brahmā
is sexless, and the main activity is "intellectual". A sexual act is therefore known as an "activity unlike that of a brahmā" or a-brahma-cariyā
In all enumerations of obstacles to perfection, or of general divisions and definitions of mental conditions, kāma occupies the leading position. It is the first of the five obstacles (nīvaraṇāni ) , the three esanās (longings), the four upādānas (attachments) , the four oghas (floods of worldly turbulence) , the four āsavas (intoxicants of the mind) , the three taṇhās , the four yogas .PTS p598
Definition of kāma as two folds: vatthu-kāmaUKT: the closest interpretation of kāma:
carnal adj. 1. Relating to the physical and especially sexual appetites: "carnal desire". 2. Worldly or earthly; temporal: "the carnal world". 3. Of or relating to the body or flesh; bodily: "carnal remains". -- AHTD
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