[152] "Therefore, Māluṅkyaputta, remember what has not been declared (abyākata) by me as undeclared, and remember what has been declared (byākata) by me as declared. And what, Māluṅkyaputta, has not been declared by me? 'The world is eternal (sassato loko)' — this, Māluṅkyaputta, has not been declared by me. 'The world is not eternal' — this, Māluṅkyaputta, has not been declared by me. 'The world is finite' — this, Māluṅkyaputta, has not been declared by me. 'The world is infinite' — this, Māluṅkyaputta, has not been declared by me. 'The soul (jīva) and the body are the same' — this has not been declared by me. 'The soul is one thing, the body another' — this has not been declared by me. 'The Tathāgata exists after death' — this has not been declared by me. 'The Tathāgata does not exist after death' — this has not been declared by me. 'The Tathāgata both exists and does not exist after death' — this has not been declared by me. 'The Tathāgata neither exists nor does not exist after death' — this has not been declared by me.
And why, Māluṅkyaputta, has this not been declared by me? Because, Māluṅkyaputta, this is not connected with the goal, is not fundamental to the holy life (brahmacariya), and does not lead to disenchantment, to dispassion, to cessation (nirodha), to peace, to direct knowledge, to full awakening, to Nibbāna. Therefore it has not been declared by me.
And what, Māluṅkyaputta, has been declared by me? 'This is suffering (dukkha)' — this, Māluṅkyaputta, has been declared by me. 'This is the origin of suffering' — this has been declared by me. 'This is the cessation of suffering' — this has been declared by me. 'This is the way of practice leading to the cessation of suffering' — this has been declared by me.
And why, Māluṅkyaputta, has this been declared by me? Because, Māluṅkyaputta, this is connected with the goal, this is fundamental to the holy life, this leads to disenchantment, to dispassion, to cessation, to peace, to direct knowledge, to full awakening, to Nibbāna. Therefore it has been declared by me.
Therefore, Māluṅkyaputta, remember what has not been declared by me as undeclared, and remember what has been declared by me as declared."
Thus spoke the Blessed One. Delighted, the venerable Māluṅkyaputta rejoiced in what the Blessed One had said.
The Cūḷamāluṅkyovāda Sutta, the third, is concluded.
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The Mahāmāluṅkyovāda Sutta
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.