7.2 Of Mental States as mutually connected

Controverted Point: That mental states are not connected with other mental states.

Theravādin: But you do not also deny that some things are concomitant, co-existent, compounded with other things, arise and cease together with them, have the same physical basis and the same object? Why then except the relation “connected with”?

One aggregate, for instance, may be co-existent with another: feeling with perception, mental coefficients, consciousness, and so on. Surely then it may be “connected with” that other.

Rājagirika, Siddhatthika: Then do you understand that one such state accompanies, pervades another state, just as oil pervades sesamum, or sugar pervades cane?

Theravādin: Nay, that cannot truly be said.