[39] Brahmin, this thought occurred to me: 'Whatever ascetics or brahmins there are who are timid and of a cowardly nature resort to remote lodgings in the wilderness and forest thickets — because of the defect of being timid and of a cowardly nature, those worthy ascetics and brahmins indeed summon up unwholesome fear and dread. But I do not resort to remote lodgings in the wilderness and forest thickets being timid and of a cowardly nature; I am one in whom horripilation has vanished. I am one of those noble ones who, with horripilation vanished, resort to remote lodgings in the wilderness and forest thickets.' Seeing clearly in myself, brahmin, this state in which horripilation has vanished, I attained even greater ease — my hair lying settled — for dwelling in the forest.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.