[70] Bhikkhus, just as when the sky-deva rains down in thick drops upon a mountain top, that water, flowing down along the slope, fills the mountain clefts, gullies, and creeks; the mountain clefts, gullies, and creeks, being full, fill the small pools; the small pools, being full, fill the large pools; the large pools, being full, fill the small rivers; the small rivers, being full, fill the great rivers; the great rivers, being full, fill the great ocean — even so, bhikkhus, volitional formations have ignorance (avijjā) as their supporting condition (upanisā); consciousness has volitional formations as its supporting condition; name-and-form (nāmarūpa) has consciousness as its supporting condition; the six sense bases (āyatana) have name-and-form as their supporting condition; contact (phassa) has the six sense bases as its supporting condition; feeling (vedanā) has contact as its supporting condition; craving (taṇhā) has feeling as its supporting condition; clinging (upādāna) has craving as its supporting condition; existence (bhava) has clinging as its supporting condition; birth has existence as its supporting condition; suffering (dukkha) has birth as its supporting condition; faith (saddhā) has suffering as its supporting condition; gladness (pāmojja) has faith as its supporting condition; rapture has gladness as its supporting condition; tranquility has rapture as its supporting condition; happiness (sukha) has tranquility as its supporting condition; concentration (samādhi) has happiness as its supporting condition; the knowledge (ñāṇa) and vision of things as they really are has concentration as its supporting condition; disenchantment (nibbidā) has the knowledge and vision of things as they really are as its supporting condition; dispassion (virāga) has disenchantment as its supporting condition; liberation (vimutti) has dispassion as its supporting condition; the knowledge of destruction (khaye ñāṇa) has liberation as its supporting condition.
The third [sutta].
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.