[304] "Here, Sandaka, some teacher claims to be all-knowing and all-seeing, claiming complete knowledge and vision (ñāṇadassana) without remainder: 'Whether I am walking or standing, asleep or awake, knowledge and vision are constantly and continually present to me.' He enters even an empty house; he gets no almsfood; even a dog bites him; he meets with a fierce elephant, he meets with a fierce horse, he meets with a fierce ox; he asks the name and clan of a woman or of a man; he asks the name of a village or of a town, and the way to it. When asked, 'How is this?' he replies: 'It had to be that I should enter an empty house — that is why I entered it. It had to be that I should get no almsfood — that is why I got none. It had to be that I should be bitten by a dog — that is why I was bitten. It had to be that I should meet with a fierce elephant — that is why I met with it. It had to be that I should meet with a fierce horse — that is why I met with it. It had to be that I should meet with a fierce ox — that is why I met with it. It had to be that I should ask the name and clan of a woman or of a man — that is why I asked. It had to be that I should ask the name of a village or of a town, and the way to it — that is why I asked.'
Regarding this, Sandaka, a sensible person reflects thus: 'This worthy teacher claims to be all-knowing and all-seeing, claiming complete knowledge and vision without remainder: "Whether I am walking or standing, asleep or awake, knowledge and vision are constantly and continually present to me." Yet he enters even an empty house; he gets no almsfood; even a dog bites him; he meets with a fierce elephant, he meets with a fierce horse, he meets with a fierce ox; he asks the name and clan of a woman or of a man; he asks the name of a village or of a town, and the way to it. When asked, "How is this?" he replies: "It had to be that I should enter an empty house — that is why I entered it. It had to be that I should get no almsfood — that is why I got none. It had to be that I should be bitten by a dog — that is why I was bitten. It had to be that I should meet with a fierce elephant — that is why I met with it. It had to be that I should meet with a fierce horse — that is why I met with it. It had to be that I should meet with a fierce ox — that is why I met with it. It had to be that I should ask the name and clan of a woman or of a man — that is why I asked. It had to be that I should ask the name of a village or of a town, and the way to it — that is why I asked."' Having understood, 'This spiritual life (brahmacariya) is without consolation,' he becomes disenchanted with that spiritual life and departs.
This, Sandaka, is the first spiritual life without consolation declared by that Blessed One who knows and sees, the Arahant, the Perfectly Self-Awakened One — a spiritual life in which a sensible person would, so far as he is able, not dwell, and dwelling in which he could not accomplish the method, the wholesome Dhamma (ñāyaṃ dhammaṃ kusalaṃ)."
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.