[1808] Sakavādin: Do the five faculties (indriya) that are mundane (lokiya) not exist?
Paravādin: Yes.
Sakavādin: But was it not said by the Blessed One: "Bhikkhus, as I surveyed the world with the eye of a Buddha (buddhacakkhu), I saw beings with little dust in their eyes and with much dust in their eyes, with keen faculties and with weak faculties, of good qualities and of bad qualities, easy to instruct and hard to instruct, and some who dwell seeing fear in blame and in the other world"?¹ Does such a discourse (suttanta) indeed exist?
Paravādin: Yes.
Sakavādin: In that case, the five faculties that are mundane do exist.
The Discussion of the Faculties (Indriyakathā) is concluded.
The Nineteenth Chapter (vagga) is concluded.
Its summary (uddāna):
One abandons defilements (kilesa) that are past; one abandons defilements
that are future; one abandons defilements that are present; emptiness (suññatā)
is included in the aggregate of volitional formations; the fruit of the ascetic life (sāmaññaphala) is unconditioned (asaṅkhata);
attainment (patti) is unconditioned; the suchness (tathatā) of all phenomena (dhammā) is unconditioned;
the Nibbāna element (nibbānadhātu) is wholesome; there is absolute assurance (accantaniyāmatā) for the worldling (puthujjana);
the five mundane faculties do not exist.
¹ M. Mū. 310.
Discussion of the Unintentional (Asañciccakathā)
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.