[737] "Even among those who claim to have reached the fundamentals of the spiritual life (ādibrahmacariya), having attained the consummation and perfection of direct knowledge (abhiññā) in this very life, Bhāradvāja, I declare a disparity (vemattaṃ). There are, Bhāradvāja, some ascetics and brahmins who go by oral tradition (anussavikā): by that oral tradition they claim to have reached the fundamentals of the spiritual life, having attained the consummation and perfection of direct knowledge in this very life — like the brahmins who are masters of the three Vedas (tevijjā). Again, Bhāradvāja, there are some ascetics and brahmins who, solely by mere faith, claim to have reached the fundamentals of the spiritual life, having attained the consummation and perfection of direct knowledge in this very life — like the reasoners and inquirers (takkī vīmaṃsī). And there are, Bhāradvāja, some ascetics and brahmins who, having directly known the Dhamma for themselves among teachings not heard before, claim to have reached the fundamentals of the spiritual life, having attained the consummation and perfection of direct knowledge in this very life. Therein, Bhāradvāja, of those ascetics and brahmins who, having directly known the Dhamma for themselves among teachings not heard before, claim to have reached the fundamentals of the spiritual life, having attained the consummation and perfection of direct knowledge in this very life — I am one. And this, Bhāradvāja, may be understood by the following method (pariyāya): in the way that those ascetics and brahmins who, having directly known the Dhamma for themselves among teachings not heard before, claim to have reached the fundamentals of the spiritual life, having attained the consummation and perfection of direct knowledge in this very life — of them I am one."
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.