[319] At Sāvatthī. There … Seated to one side, the Venerable Kappa said this to the Blessed One: "Venerable sir, how does one know, how does one see, so that in regard to this conscious body and to all external signs, the mind (mānasa) is rid of I-making (ahaṅkāra), mine-making (mamaṅkāra), and conceit (māna), has transcended discrimination (vidhā), and is peaceful and well liberated?"
"Whatever form there is, Kappa — past, future, or present … — having seen all form with right wisdom (sammappaññā) as it really is thus: 'This is not mine, this I am not, this is not my self,' one is liberated through non-clinging. Whatever feeling (vedanā) there is … Whatever perception there is … Whatever volitional formations there are … Whatever consciousness there is — past, future, or present, internal or external, gross or subtle, inferior or superior, far or near — having seen all consciousness with right wisdom as it really is thus: 'This is not mine, this I am not, this is not my self,' one is liberated through non-clinging.
"When one knows thus, Kappa, when one sees thus, then in regard to this conscious body and to all external signs, the mind is rid of I-making, mine-making, and conceit, has transcended discrimination, and is peaceful and well liberated."
The Chapter on Dhamma-Speakers is concluded.
Its summary verse:
Ignorance, true knowledge, the two on speakers; bondage, the two on being freed;
The fetter, clinging, virtue, the learned one, and the two with Kappa.¹
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¹ The Sinhalese edition reads: "the virtuous one, and the two with Kappina."
The Ignorance Chapter, the third in the Shorter Fifty of the Khandha-saṃyutta.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.