Piti

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P¨ti

PTS: Majjhima Nikaya III: #118 (Middle Length Sayings III #118: Mindfulness When Breathing, Horner trans., pp127)

WP: The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha, #118: Mindfulness of Breathing., Nanamoli/Bodhi, trans., pp946

PTS: The Book of the Gradual Sayings II: The Book of the Fours, II: Deportment iv: Restraint, Woodward, trans, pp16

Pali	MO	Hare	Horner	Punnaji	Bodhi	Nanamoli	Rhys Davids	(Mrs)Rhys Davids	Thanissaro	Walshe	Woodward
P¨ti	Enthusiasm, excitement	zest for joy	rapture and joy, rapture	Rapture, mental happiness	rapture	rapture, rapture and pleasure	joy	Rapture	Rapture	delight	zest

**Pali Text Society, Pali English Dictionary (edited entry):**
P¨ti: [cp. Class. Sk. pr¨ti & Vedic pr¨ta pp. of p.r¨...] emotion of joy, delight, zest, exuberance. -- D I.37, 75; III.241, 265, 288; M I.37; S II.30; IV.236; A III.26, 285 sq.; IV.411, 450; V.1 sq., 135, 311 sq., 333 sq.;...In series p¨ti passaddhi sam¤dhi upekkh¤ under sambojjhanga (with eleven means of cultivation: see Vism 132...). -- Phrase p¨tiy¤ sar¨ra¸ pharati "to pervade or thrill the body with joy" (aor. phari), at J I.33; V.494;...; all passages refer to p¨ti as the fivefold p¨ti, pa¾cava¼¼¤ p¨ti, or joy of the 5 grades..., viz. khuddik¤ (slight sense of interest), kha¼ik¤ (momentary joy), okkantik¤ (oscillating interest, flood of joy), ubbeg¤ (ecstasy, thrilling emotion), and phara¼¤ p¨ti (interest amounting to rapture, suffusing joy)....-- p¨ti as nir¤misa (pure) and s¤misa (material)^[1] at M III.85; S IV.235. -p¤mojja joy and gladness A III.181. 307 (pamujja);... -phara¼at¤* state of being pervaded with joy, joyous rapture, ecstasy D III.277;... -bhakkha feeding on joy (Ep. of the Abhassara Devas) D I.17; III.28, 84, 90; A V.60;...A I.110;... -mana joyful-hearted, exhilarated, glad of heart or mind M I.37; III.86; S I.181; A III.21; V.3;... -rasa taste or emotion of joy... -sambojjhanga the joy-constituent of enlightenment M III.86; D III.106, 226, 252, 282.... -sukha zest and happiness, intrinsic joy...S I.203; D III.131, 222;...
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^[1]"Nir¤misa and s¤misa" "without-meat, with-mean" or with or without carnality. This, it is my contention, is the clue to the translation of this term, that is to say that Piti, whatever it is, has a carnal side, and that must be accounted for in the translated term. I believe the best term is probably "excitement". I usually use "enthusiasm" to avoid having to explain that this is a good kind of excitement, not a distracted sort.