[113] "Householders, as to those ascetics and brahmins who hold such a doctrine, such a view as this: 'When one acts or makes others act, when one mutilates or makes others mutilate, when one tortures or makes others torture, when one inflicts sorrow or has sorrow inflicted, when one oppresses or has others oppressed, when one intimidates or has others intimidated; when one has living beings slain, takes what is not given, breaks into houses, carries off plunder, burgles an isolated house, waylays travelers on the highway, goes to another's wife, speaks falsehood — evil is done by the one who acts. Even if, with a wheel rimmed with razor blades, someone were to reduce the living beings on this earth to a single heap of flesh, a single mass of flesh, there would be evil on that account, there would be a coming of evil. Even if one were to go along the southern bank of the Ganges killing and slaughtering, mutilating and making others mutilate, torturing and making others torture, there would be evil on that account, there would be a coming of evil. Even if one were to go along the northern bank of the Ganges giving and making others give, sacrificing and making others sacrifice, there would be merit on that account, there would be a coming of merit. Through giving, through self-taming, through restraint, through truthful speech, there is merit, there is a coming of merit' — of them this may be expected: that, having shunned these three unwholesome states, namely bodily misconduct, verbal misconduct, and mental misconduct, they will undertake these three wholesome states, namely bodily good conduct, verbal good conduct, and mental good conduct, and will conduct themselves accordingly. For what reason? Because those worthy ascetics and brahmins see in unwholesome states the danger, the degradation, and the defilement, and see in wholesome states — in renunciation — the benefit, the aspect of cleansing.
"Now, since there really is doing (kiriyā), one who holds the view 'there is doing' — that view of his is right view. Since there really is doing, when he intends 'there is doing,' that intention of his is right intention. Since there really is doing, when he utters the speech 'there is doing,' that speech of his is right speech. Since there really is doing, when he says 'there is doing,' he does not set himself in opposition to those arahants who hold the doctrine of doing. Since there really is doing, when he convinces another that 'there is doing,' that convincing of his is a convincing in the true Dhamma; and by that convincing in the true Dhamma he neither exalts himself nor disparages others. Thus, indeed, his former unvirtuousness is abandoned and virtuousness is established; and there are this right view, right intention, right speech, non-opposition to the noble ones, convincing in the true Dhamma, non-exaltation of oneself, and non-disparagement of others. Thus these many wholesome states come into being with right view as their condition."
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.