[50] Bhikkhus, while you are thus training in concord, with mutual delight, without disputing, there might arise between one another verbal friction (vacīsaṅkhāra) — contempt regarding views (diṭṭhipaḷāsa), resentment of mind, displeasure, and dissatisfaction. In that case, you should approach whichever bhikkhu among the bhikkhus siding with the one party you consider the more amenable to speech, and say to him: 'Friend, while we were training in concord, with mutual delight, without disputing, there has arisen between one another verbal friction — contempt regarding views, resentment of mind, displeasure, and dissatisfaction. Knowing that, would the Ascetic censure it?' Answering rightly, bhikkhus, the bhikkhu would answer thus: 'Friend, while we were training in concord, with mutual delight, without disputing, there has arisen between one another verbal friction — contempt regarding views, resentment of mind, displeasure, and dissatisfaction. Knowing that, the Ascetic would censure it.' — 'But, friend, without abandoning that thing, could one realize Nibbāna?' Answering rightly, bhikkhus, the bhikkhu would answer thus: 'Friend, without abandoning that thing, one could not realize Nibbāna.'
Then, among the other bhikkhus siding with the other party, you should approach whichever bhikkhu you consider the more amenable to speech, and say to him: 'Friend, while we were training in concord, with mutual delight, without disputing, there has arisen between one another verbal friction — contempt regarding views, resentment of mind, displeasure, and dissatisfaction. Knowing that, would the Ascetic censure it?' Answering rightly, bhikkhus, the bhikkhu would answer thus: 'Friend, while we were training in concord, with mutual delight, without disputing, there has arisen between one another verbal friction — contempt regarding views, resentment of mind, displeasure, and dissatisfaction. Knowing that, the Ascetic would censure it.' — 'But, friend, without abandoning that thing, could one realize Nibbāna?' Answering rightly, bhikkhus, the bhikkhu would answer thus: 'Friend, without abandoning that thing, one could not realize Nibbāna.'
If, bhikkhus, others should ask that bhikkhu thus: 'Was it the venerable one who drew these bhikkhus of ours out of the unwholesome and established them in the wholesome?' Answering rightly, bhikkhus, the bhikkhu would answer thus: 'Here, friends, I approached the Blessed One; the Blessed One taught me the Dhamma; having heard that Dhamma, I spoke to those bhikkhus; and those bhikkhus, having heard that Dhamma, emerged from the unwholesome and became established in the wholesome.' Answering thus, bhikkhus, a bhikkhu neither exalts himself nor disparages another; he answers in accordance with the Dhamma, and no legitimate consequence of his assertion comes to a ground deserving censure.
Thus spoke the Blessed One. Delighted, those bhikkhus rejoiced in the Blessed One's words.
The Kinti Sutta, the third, is finished.
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Sāmagāma Sutta
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.