[507] **"Having extracted the view of self (attānudiṭṭhi)":** the personality-view (sakkāyadiṭṭhi) with its twenty grounds is called the view of self. Here an unlearned worldling (puthujjana) — one who has not seen the noble ones, who is unskilled in the Dhamma of the noble ones, undisciplined in the Dhamma of the noble ones; who has not seen good persons, who is unskilled in the Dhamma of good persons, undisciplined in the Dhamma of good persons — regards form as self, or self as possessing form, or form as in self, or self as in form; he regards feeling (vedanā), perception, volitional formations, consciousness as self, or self as possessing consciousness, or consciousness as in self, or self as in consciousness. Whatever view there is of such a kind — the resort to views, the thicket of views, the wilderness of views, the contortion of views, the vacillation of views, the fetter of views; grasping, holding, adherence, misapprehension, a wrong road, a false path, wrongness, the ground of sectarian tenets, grasping by way of perversion, inverted grasping, distorted grasping, wrong grasping, the grasping of what is unreal as real — to the extent of the sixty-two speculative views: this is the view of self.
**"Having extracted the view of self":** having extracted and thoroughly extracted, having drawn out and thoroughly drawn out, having uprooted and thoroughly uprooted, having abandoned, dispelled, brought to an end, and reduced to non-existence the view of self — thus, "having extracted the view of self."
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.