The Characteristic of Lobha - Cittas rooted in attachment II

In classifying lobha-mūla-cittas there is yet another distinction to be made. Lobha-mūla-cittas can be "unprompted'', asankhārika, or ''prompted'', sasankhārika. ''Asankhārika'' can be translated as ''unprompted'', ''not induced'', or ''spontaneous''; sasankhārika can be translated as ''prompted'' or ''induced''.
The Visuddhimagga (XIV, 91) states about lobha-mūla-citta that it is ''sasankhārika'' ''when it is with consciousness which is sluggish and urged on.'' The lobha-mūla-cittas which are sasankhārika can be prompted by the advice or request of someone else, or they arise induced by one's own previous consideration. Even when they are induced by one's own consideration, they are sasankhārika; the cittas are ''sluggish and urged on''.

 

Of the four lobha-mūla-cittas arising with ditthi, two types are unprompted,

asankhārika, and two types are prompted, sasankhārika. As regards the lobha

-mūla-cittas arising without ditthi, two types are are unprompted, asankhārika

and two types are  prompted, sasankhārika. Thus, of the eight  types of lobha

-mūla-cittas, four types types are unprompted and four types are

prompted.