2. Commentary on the Conditional Relations of Dyads
In the Duka Paṭṭhāna also, the answering of questions and the enumeration in all the dyads should be understood by the very method that has come in the Pāḷi text. But here, the answer for the with-root and associated-with-root dyads is similar to the answer for the root dyad; likewise for the roots-and-with-root and roots-and-associated-with-root dyads, likewise for the with-condition and conditioned dyads. "This dyad should be made just as the with-condition dyad" - this was said because, just as the with-condition, the conditioned too does not admit of combination with the without-condition or with the unconditioned. The with-sense-object, associated-with-consciousness, and conjoined dyads also have similar answers only; likewise the mental corruption, mental flood, and mental bond clusters. For these three indeed have mutually similar answers only. Furthermore, the mundane, with-mental-corruptions, subject-to-mental-fetters, subject-to-mental-knots, subject-to-mental-hindrances, adhered-to, and subject-to-mental-defilement dyads are the same as the dissociated-from-mental-corruptions-but-with-mental-corruptions, dissociated-from-mental-fetters-but-subject-to-mental-fetters, dissociated-from-mental-knots-but-subject-to-mental-knots, dissociated-from-mental-hindrances-but-subject-to-mental-hindrances, dissociated-from-adherence-but-adhered-to, dissociated-from-mental-defilements-but-subject-to-mental-defilement, included, and surpassed dyads - these dyads too are the same.
The mental defilement dyad is similar to the mental fetter dyad. The mentally defiled, associated-with-mental-defilements, associated-with-mental-hindrances, to-be-abandoned-through-vision, and with-conflict dyads are also the same. Likewise the mental-defilements-and-mentally-defiled, mental-hindrances-and-associated-with-mental-hindrances, mental-defilements-and-associated-with-mental-defilements dyads. By this method, it should be understood that the answers for all dyads that are similar in meaning are similar only. However, in the entire Paṭṭhāna, the cognizable-in-some-way dyad is not obtained. In dyads of such kind as mental corruptions and associated with mental corruptions, mental fetters and associated with mental fetters, mental knots and associated with mental knots, mental hindrances and associated with mental hindrances, mental defilements and mentally defiled - the result condition and the asynchronous kamma condition are not obtained. In the non-root-with-root and non-root-rootless, there is no root condition. In these dyads - roots and associated with root, mental corruptions and associated with mental corruptions, mental knots and associated with mental knots - non-root, non-meditative-absorption, and non-path are not obtained. But in these - mental fetters and associated with mental fetters, mental hindrances and associated with mental hindrances, mental defilements and associated with mental defilements, mental defilements and mentally defiled - by virtue of delusion accompanied by sceptical doubt and restlessness, the non-root condition is obtained; non-meditative-absorption and non-path conditions are not obtained - thus, having examined what is obtainable and what is not obtainable in all the dyads, the enumeration of turns should be understood according to the Pāḷi text itself.
Commentary on the Conditional Relations of Dyads.