[797] "Vaccha, the wanderers of other sects regard form as self (attā), or self as possessing form, or form as in self, or self as in form. They regard feeling (vedanā) as self … perception … volitional formations … They regard consciousness as self, or self as possessing consciousness, or consciousness as in self, or self as in consciousness. Therefore, when the wanderers of other sects are asked thus, they answer thus: 'The world is eternal,' or … 'The Tathāgata neither exists nor does not exist after death.' But the Tathāgata, Vaccha, the Arahant, the Perfectly Enlightened One, does not regard form as self, nor self as possessing form, nor form as in self, nor self as in form. He does not regard feeling as self … nor perception … nor volitional formations … He does not regard consciousness as self, nor self as possessing consciousness, nor consciousness as in self, nor self as in consciousness. Therefore, when the Tathāgata is asked thus, he does not answer thus: 'The world is eternal,' or 'The world is not eternal,' or 'The world is finite,' or 'The world is infinite,' or 'The soul (jīva) and the body are the same,' or 'The soul is one thing, the body another,' or 'The Tathāgata exists after death,' or 'The Tathāgata does not exist after death,' or 'The Tathāgata both exists and does not exist after death,' or 'The Tathāgata neither exists nor does not exist after death.'"
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.