[257] "Now, friend, when a bhikkhu (bhikkhu) knows thus and sees thus, would it be fitting for him to say: 'The soul (jīva) and the body (sarīra) are the same,' or 'The soul is one thing, the body another'?"
"Friend, when a bhikkhu knows thus and sees thus, it would not be fitting for him to say … "
"But, friend, I know this thus, I see this thus; and yet I do not say: 'The soul and the body are the same,' or 'The soul is one thing, the body another.'"
… The second jhāna. … The third jhāna. … He enters and dwells in the fourth jhāna.
[Editions note: The Siam Raṭṭha edition (with the PTS edition) reads 'na kallaṁ' — 'it is not fitting to say' — where the Mahāsaṅgīti edition reads 'kallaṁ' ('it is fitting'). This translation follows the Siam Raṭṭha reading.]
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.