sense-desire

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Even the ascetic feels the strong sting of sense-desire.

Human Traits and their Social Significance Irwin Edman
The 'higher deities' are the two last in these five Deva worlds which, by the Buddhists, were included with hell, the Peta's or ghosts, animals, men, Asuras, and firmamental spirits, in the 'Kāmaloka of sense-desire,' inferior in space to the Heavens of 'Form' and the 'Formless.'

Psalms of the Sisters Caroline Augusta Foley Rhys 1909