[373] "What do you think, Vāseṭṭha? This being so, does not the statement of the brahmins versed in the three Vedas turn out to be without demonstrable basis (appāṭihīrakataṃ bhāsitaṃ)?"
"Certainly, worthy Gotama, this being so, the statement of the brahmins versed in the three Vedas turns out to be without demonstrable basis."
"Good, Vāseṭṭha. That those brahmins versed in the three Vedas should teach the path to companionship with that which they neither know nor see, saying: 'This alone is the straight path, this is the direct way, leading onward; it leads one who practices it to companionship with Brahmā' — this is not possible."
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.