[443] Then the Blessed One addressed the bhikkhus: "What do you think, bhikkhus? Has this bhikkhu Sāti, the fisherman's son, kindled even a spark of warmth (usmīkata) in this Dhamma and Discipline?"
"How could that be, venerable sir? No indeed, venerable sir."
When this was said, the bhikkhu Sāti, the fisherman's son, sat silent, dismayed, with shoulders drooping and head lowered, brooding, at a loss for words.
Then the Blessed One, knowing that the bhikkhu Sāti, the fisherman's son, was sitting silent, dismayed, with shoulders drooping and head lowered, brooding, at a loss for words, said to him: "Futile man, you will be known by this evil view of your own. Here I shall question the bhikkhus."
Then the Blessed One addressed the bhikkhus: "Bhikkhus, do you too understand the Dhamma taught by me in the way that this bhikkhu Sāti, the fisherman's son, does—who, by his own wrong grasp, both misrepresents us, and digs himself up, and generates much demerit?"
"No indeed, venerable sir. For in many ways, venerable sir, the Blessed One has stated that consciousness (viññāṇa) is dependently arisen: apart from a condition, there is no arising of consciousness."
"Good, bhikkhus. It is good that you understand the Dhamma taught by me thus. For in many ways, bhikkhus, I have stated that consciousness is dependently arisen: apart from a condition, there is no arising of consciousness. And yet this bhikkhu Sāti, the fisherman's son, by his own wrong grasp, both misrepresents us, and digs himself up, and generates much demerit. That indeed will be for that futile man's harm and suffering (dukkha) for a long time."
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.