Note 2 — Glory to Him, the Blessed Saint, the All-Enlightened one.

The six sense-organs and the six objects of sense (twelve) are affected by three desires of each, generally taken as Kāmatanhā, Rūpatanhā, Arūpatanhā, desire for existence in the world of desire, in the worlds of form, in the worlds of the formless (abstract), thus making thirty-six varieties.