Five Entanglements
29. ‘Again, Vâsettha, if this river Akiravatî were full of water even to the brim, and overflowing. And a man with business on the other side, making for the other side, bound for the other side, should come up, and want to cross over. And if he covering himself up, even to his head, were to lie down, on this bank, to sleep.
‘Now what think you, Vâsettha? Would that man be able to get over from this bank of the river Akiravatî to the further bank?’
‘Certainly not, Gotama!’
30. ‘And in the same way, Vâsettha, there are these Five Hindrances, in the Discipline of the Arahats{1}, which are called “veils,” and are called “hindrances,” and are called “obstacles,” and are called “entanglements.”‘
‘Which are the five?’
‘The hindrance of worldly lusts,
‘The hindrance of illwill,
‘The hindrance of torpor and sloth of heart a mind,
‘The hindrance of flurry and worry,
‘The hindrance of suspense.
From the Tevigga Sutta, Dialogues of the Buddha {The Dîgha-Nikâya}
Translated from the Pâli by T. W. Rhys Davids
London, H. Frowde, Oxford University Press [1899]
Vol. II of The Sacred Books of the Buddhists
http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/dob/dob-13tx.htm