[619] "Brahmin, suppose there were a vessel of water not overgrown with moss and water-plants. A man with good eyes, examining the reflection of his own face in it, would know and see it as it really is (yathābhūta). So too, brahmin, on an occasion when one dwells with a mind not obsessed by dullness and drowsiness (thīna-middha), not overcome by dullness and drowsiness, and one knows and sees as it really is the escape from arisen dullness and drowsiness — on that occasion one knows and sees as it really is one's own good; one knows and sees as it really is the good of others; and the good of both … Even those hymns (manta) that have long gone unrecited come back to mind, let alone those that have been recited."
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.