[283] 4. Bhikkhus, whatever[1] ascetics or brahmins do not understand as it really is (yathābhūtaṃ): "This is suffering (dukkha)"; do not understand as it really is: "This is the origin of suffering (dukkhasamudaya)"; do not understand as it really is: "This is the cessation of suffering (dukkhanirodha)"; do not understand as it really is: "This is the way of practice leading to the cessation of suffering (dukkhanirodhagāminī paṭipadā)" — those ascetics or brahmins, bhikkhus, are not acknowledged by me as ascetics among ascetics or as brahmins among brahmins; nor do those venerable ones, by realizing it for themselves with direct knowledge (abhiññā), in this very life enter upon and dwell in the goal of asceticism or the goal of brahminhood. But whatever ascetics or brahmins, bhikkhus, understand as it really is: "This is suffering"; understand as it really is: "This is the origin of suffering"; understand as it really is: "This is the cessation of suffering"; understand as it really is: "This is the way of practice leading to the cessation of suffering" — those ascetics or brahmins, bhikkhus, are acknowledged 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.
Those who do not understand suffering, and also the origination of suffering,
and where suffering wholly ceases without remainder,
and who do not know that path (magga) which leads to the stilling of suffering —
they, deficient in the liberation of mind (cetovimutti) and in the liberation by wisdom (paññāvimutti),
are incapable of making an end; truly they go on to birth and aging.
But those who understand suffering, and also the origination of suffering,
and where suffering wholly ceases without remainder,
and who understand that path which leads to the stilling of suffering —
they, endowed with the liberation of mind and with the liberation by wisdom,
are capable of making an end; they do not go on to birth and aging.
The Fourth.
[1] Siam edition footnote: the Burmese (M.) and European (Yu.) editions read "ye hi."
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.