[107] "Bhikkhus, the four stations of consciousness (viññāṇaṭṭhiti) should be seen as like the earth element (pathavīdhātu). Bhikkhus, delight and lust (nandirāga) should be seen as like the water element (āpodhātu). Bhikkhus, consciousness together with its nutriment (āhāra) should be seen as like the five kinds of seeds.
"Bhikkhus, consciousness, while standing, might stand engaged with form: with form as its object, with form as its support, sprinkled with delight, it might come to growth, increase, and abundance. Or, bhikkhus, consciousness, while standing, might stand engaged with feeling (vedanā) … it might come to growth, increase, and abundance. Or engaged with perception … Or, bhikkhus, consciousness, while standing, might stand engaged with volitional formations: with volitional formations as its object, with volitional formations as its support, sprinkled with delight, it might come to growth, increase, and abundance.
"Bhikkhus, if anyone should speak thus: 'Apart from form, apart from feeling, apart from perception, apart from volitional formations, I shall declare the coming or the going of consciousness, its passing away or its rearising, its growth, its increase, or its abundance' — that is impossible.
"Bhikkhus, if a bhikkhu has abandoned lust for the form element (dhātu), with the abandoning of lust the object is cut off; there is no support for consciousness. If for the feeling element … If for the perception element … If for the volitional-formations element … Bhikkhus, if a bhikkhu has abandoned lust for the consciousness element, with the abandoning of lust the object is cut off; there is no support for consciousness. That consciousness, unsupported, not increasing, non-generative, is liberated. Being liberated, it is steady; being steady, it is content; being content, he is not agitated. Being unagitated, he personally attains final Nibbāna. He understands: 'Birth is destroyed … there is no more coming to any state of being.'"
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.