[594] "Here, student, some woman or man, having approached an ascetic or a brahmin, is not one who asks: 'Venerable sir, what is skillful (kusala)? What is unskillful (akusala)? What is blameworthy (sāvajja)? What is blameless (anavajja)? What should be cultivated? What should not be cultivated? What, being done by me, will be for my harm and suffering (dukkha) for a long time? Or what, being done by me, will be for my welfare and happiness for a long time?' Because of that deed (kamma), thus completed and thus undertaken, with the breaking up of the body, after death, he arises in a state of deprivation (apāya), a bad destination (duggati), the nether world (vinipāta), hell (niraya). But if, with the breaking up of the body, after death, he does not arise in a state of deprivation, a bad destination, the nether world, hell — if he comes to the human state, then wherever he is afterwards reborn, he is of weak wisdom (duppañña). This, student, is the way of practice (paṭipadā) that leads to weak wisdom, namely: having approached an ascetic or a brahmin, not being one who asks: 'Venerable sir, what is skillful? What is unskillful? What is blameworthy? What is blameless? What should be cultivated? What should not be cultivated? What, being done by me, will be for my harm and suffering for a long time? Or what, being done by me, will be for my welfare and happiness for a long time?'"
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.