[325] The same setting (nidāna). Sitting to one side, the Venerable Mahākoṭṭhita said this to the Venerable Sāriputta: "'True knowledge (vijjā), true knowledge,' friend Sāriputta, it is said. What now, friend, is true knowledge, and in what way has one arrived at true knowledge?"
"Here, friend, the instructed noble disciple understands as it really is the gratification (assāda), the danger (ādīnava), and the escape (nissaraṇa) in regard to form; in regard to feeling (vedanā) …; in regard to perception …; in regard to volitional formations …; he understands as it really is the gratification, the danger, and the escape in regard to consciousness. This, friend, is called true knowledge, and in this way one has arrived at true knowledge."
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.