[604] "Suppose, brāhmaṇa, there were a bowl of water mixed with lac, or with turmeric, or with blue dye, or with crimson dye. A man with eyes, examining the reflection of his own face in it, would not know or see it as it really is (yathābhūta). So too, brāhmaṇa, on whatever occasion one dwells with a mind (citta) obsessed by sensual lust (kāmarāga), overwhelmed by sensual lust, and does not know or see as it really is the escape (nissaraṇa) from arisen sensual lust — on that occasion one does not know or see one's own good as it really is; one does not know or see the good of another … on that occasion one does not know or see as it really is the good of both. Even sacred hymns (mantā) long recited do not recur to the mind, still less those not recited."
[Footnote: Ma. and Yu. editions read "na dissati" ("is not seen") for "na passati" ("does not see"); so also below.]
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.