Suddhaṭṭhakasuttanidadesa

Suttapiṭaka · Khuddakanikāya · Mahāniddesa · Vol. 29 · Section 113

[113] **"Contemplating purity, he believes that to be knowledge (ñāṇa)"**: one who sees the pure — he is one contemplating purity. **"He believes that to be knowledge"**: he believes the seeing of form with eye-consciousness to be knowledge; he believes it to be the path; he believes it to be the way; he believes it to be the means of deliverance (niyyāna). Therefore: "contemplating purity, he believes that to be knowledge." Hence the Blessed One said: "I see the pure, the supreme, the one free from disease; by what is seen comes a person's complete purity." Understanding thus, having known it as "the supreme," contemplating purity, he believes that to be knowledge.

English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.