[676] For whomever, wherever, the eye base (cakkhāyatana) has not ceased, will the ear base (sotāyatana) not cease for that one there?
For those who are being reborn into the Pure Abodes (Suddhāvāsa), the eye base has not ceased for them there, yet it is not the case that the ear base will not cease for them there. For those attaining final Nibbāna in the Pure Abodes, for non-percipient beings (asaññasattā), and for formless beings (arūpa), the eye base has not ceased for them there and the ear base will not cease.
Or else, for whomever, wherever, the ear base will not cease, has the eye base not ceased for that one there?
For those attaining final Nibbāna in the five-constituent existence (pañcavokāra), the ear base will not cease for them there, yet it is not the case that the eye base has not ceased for them there. For those attaining final Nibbāna in the Pure Abodes, for non-percipient beings, and for formless beings, the ear base will not cease for them there and the eye base has not ceased.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.