Chapter 24. Craving
Verse 6
Global verse #339
The currents of his passion-based thoughts carry him away, that man of wrong views for whom the thirty-six streams (of craving)19 flowing towards what is pleasurable are strong.
Footnotes
19. The ‘thirty-six streams (of craving)’ are the three kinds of craving (taṇhā) – for sense pleasures, for existence, and for non-existence – multiplied by the six internal plus the six external bases (āyatana-s).