The Long Āgama Sūtra 26.32

26.32

佛言：「三明婆羅門亦復如是，虛誑無實。婆悉咤！五欲潔淨，甚可愛樂。云何為五？眼見色，甚可愛樂；耳聲、鼻香、舌味、身觸，甚可愛樂。於我賢聖法中，為著、為縛，為是拘鎖。彼三明婆羅門為五欲所染，愛著堅固，不見過失，不知出要，彼為五欲之所繫縛。正使奉事日月水火，唱言：『扶接我去生梵天者。』無有是處。譬如阿夷羅河，其水平岸，烏鳥得飲，有人在此岸身被重繫，空喚彼岸言：『來渡我去。』彼岸寧來渡此人不？」

The Buddha said, “The priests who possess the three Vedas are likewise. They are deceptive and untrue.

“Vāsiṣṭha, the five desires are pure and extremely delightful. What are the five? Images seen by the eye are extremely delightful … ear … sounds … nose … odors … tongue … flavors … body … touches … are extremely delightful. In my noble teaching, they are attachments, fetters, and binding chains. Those priests who possess the three Vedas are defiled by these five desires, and their addiction to them is strong. They don’t see their drawback and don’t know their escape, so they are bound by these five desires. Even if they worshipped the sun and moon or water and fire and declared, ‘Support my rebirth in Brahmā’s Heaven!’ it would be impossible.

“It’s like the Ajiravatī River when its current is as high as its banks and a crow could drink from it. Suppose a person on the near shore who’s been tightly bound called in vain to the other shore, ‘Cross over to me!’ Would the other shore cross over to this person?”