[105] Householders, there are some ascetics and brahmins who hold such a doctrine, such a view: "There is nothing given, nothing sacrificed, nothing offered; there is no fruit or result of deeds well done or ill done; there is no this world, no other world; there is no mother, no father; there are no spontaneously reborn beings (opapātika); there are in the world no ascetics and brahmins who have gone rightly and are practicing rightly, who, having realized this world and the other world for themselves by direct knowledge (abhiññā), make them known."
Householders, there are some ascetics and brahmins whose doctrine is directly opposed to that of those very ascetics and brahmins. They say thus: "There is what is given, there is what is sacrificed, there is what is offered; there is fruit and result of deeds well done and ill done; there is this world, there is the other world; there is mother, there is father; there are spontaneously reborn beings; there are in the world ascetics and brahmins who have gone rightly and are practicing rightly, who, having realized this world and the other world for themselves by direct knowledge, make them known."
What do you think, householders? Do not these ascetics and brahmins hold doctrines directly opposed to one another?
"So it is, venerable sir."
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.