[581] "Student, beings are the owners of their deeds (kamma), heirs to their deeds; deeds are their womb, deeds are their kin, deeds are their refuge. It is deeds that divide beings, that is, into the inferior and the superior."
"I do not understand in detail the meaning of this statement spoken in brief by the worthy Gotama, whose meaning he has not expounded in detail. It would be good if the worthy Gotama would teach me the Dhamma in such a way that I might understand in detail the meaning of this statement spoken in brief by the worthy Gotama, whose meaning he has not expounded in detail."
"Then, student, listen and attend well; I will speak."
"Yes, sir," Subha the student, Todeyya's son, replied to the Blessed One.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.