[44] Brahmin, this occurred to me: 'Whatever ascetics or brahmins, being of weak wisdom and drivelling, resort to remote lodgings in the wilderness and the forest — because of the defect of their weak wisdom and drivelling stupidity, those worthy ascetics and brahmins indeed call up unwholesome fear and dread (bhayabherava). But I do not resort to remote lodgings in the wilderness and the forest being of weak wisdom and drivelling: I am accomplished in wisdom (paññā). I am one of those noble ones who, accomplished in wisdom, resort to remote lodgings in the wilderness and the forest.' Brahmin, clearly seeing this accomplishment of wisdom in myself, I attained still greater assurance — with hair unruffled — for dwelling in the forest.
The Sixteenfold Exposition is concluded.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.