Buddhacarita by Ven Asvaghosa - Ancient Buddhist Texts

Buddha-carita, or Life of Buddha - 147
31. ‘That is called "inordinate attachment," by which the fool is
entangled in external objects through his mind, speech, actions, and
thoughts, O thou who hast shaken thyself free from all attachments.
32. ‘The misery which a man imagines by the ideas "This is mine," "I
am connected with this," is to be recognised as "gravitation," – by this
a man is borne downwards into new births.
33. ‘Thus Ignorance, O ye wise, being fivefold in its character,
energises towards torpor, delusion, the great delusion, and the two
kinds of darkness.
34. ‘Know, that among these indolence is "torpor," death and birth are
"delusion," and be it clearly understood, O undeluded one, that desire
is the "great delusion."
35. ‘Since by it even the higher beings are deluded, therefore, O hero,
is this called the "great delusion."
36. ‘They define anger, O thou angerless one, as "darkness;" and
despondency, O undesponding, they pronounce to be the "blind
darkness."
37. ‘The child, entangled in this fivefold ignorance, is effused in his
different births in a world abounding with misery.
38. ‘He wanders about in the world of embodied existence, thinking
that I am the seer, and the hearer, and the thinker, – the effect and
the cause.