[722] Having sat down, the Venerable Sāriputta said this to Anāthapiṇḍika the householder: "Householder, I hope you are bearing up; I hope you are getting along. I hope your painful feelings (vedanā) are subsiding and not increasing, and that their subsiding is evident, not their increasing."
"Venerable Sāriputta, I am not bearing up; I am not getting along. My painful feelings are severe; they are increasing, not subsiding; their increasing is evident, not their subsiding."
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.