[319] How does one regard feeling (vedanā) in the self?
Here someone regards perception, volitional formations, consciousness, and form as self. He thinks thus: 'This indeed is my self; and in this self there is this feeling (vedanā).' Thus he regards feeling in the self. Suppose there were a flower endowed with fragrance, and a man were to speak of it thus: 'This is the flower, this is the fragrance; the flower is one thing, the fragrance another; but this fragrance is in this flower' — thus he regards the fragrance in the flower. In the same way, here someone regards perception, volitional formations, consciousness, and form as self. He thinks thus: 'This indeed is my self; and in this self there is this feeling.' Thus he regards feeling in the self.
The misapprehension through adherence is a view; the view is not the basis, the basis is not the view … This is the third view of self (attānudiṭṭhi), with feeling as its basis. A view of self is wrong view (micchādiṭṭhi), a failure of view … These are fetters, but not views.
Thus one regards feeling in the self.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.