>>10906890Here is the meaning in brief.Tangleis a term for the
network of craving. For that is a tangle in the sense of lacing
together, like the tangle called network of branches in bamboo thickets, etc., because it goes on arising again and again up and down[1]among the objects [of consciousness] beginning with what is visible. But it is calledthe inner tangle and the outer tanglebecause it arises [as craving] for one’s own requisites and another’s, for one’s own person and another’s, and for the internal and external bases [for consciousness].
Since it arises in this way,this generation is entangled in a
tangle.As the bamboos, etc., are entangled by the bamboo
tangle, etc., so too this generation, in other words, this order
of living beings, is all entangled by the tangle of craving-
the meaning is that it is intertwined, interlaced by it. [2] And because it is entangled like this,so I ask of Gotama this question,that is why I ask this. He addressed the Blessed One by his race name asGotama.Who succeeds in disentangling this tangle:who may disentangle this tangle that keeps the three kinds of existence entangled in this way? – What he asks is, who is capable of disentangling it?
