[442] "Bhikkhus, there are these three feelings (vedanā). What three? Pleasant feeling, painful feeling, and neither-painful-nor-pleasant feeling. Bhikkhus, whatever ascetics or brahmins do not understand as it really is the origin, the passing away, the gratification, the danger, and the escape in regard to these three feelings — those ascetics or brahmins, bhikkhus, are not considered by me as ascetics among ascetics or as brahmins among brahmins; nor do those venerable ones, by realizing it for themselves with direct knowledge, in this very life enter upon and dwell in the goal of asceticism or the goal of brahminhood. But, bhikkhus, whatever ascetics or brahmins understand as it really is the origin, the passing away, the gratification, the danger, and the escape in regard to these three feelings — those ascetics or brahmins, bhikkhus, are indeed considered by me as ascetics among ascetics and as brahmins among brahmins; and those venerable ones, by realizing it for themselves with direct knowledge, in this very life enter upon and dwell in the goal of asceticism and the goal of brahminhood."
The seventh.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.