Itivuttaka 103.3.1

103.3.1

Ye ca kho keci, bhikkhave, samaṇā vā brāhmaṇā vā ‘idaṃ dukkhan’ti yathābhūtaṃ pajānanti; ‘ayaṃ dukkhasamudayo’ti yathābhūtaṃ pajānanti; ‘ayaṃ dukkhanirodho’ti yathābhūtaṃ pajānanti; ‘ayaṃ dukkhanirodhagāminī paṭipadā’ti yathābhūtaṃ pajānanti—

‘But whatsoever devotees or brahmans there are, O monks, that do not correctly comprehend that “This is Misery” and likewise that “This is its Origin, its Cessation, and the Way that leadeth to its Cessation”—mine in truth, O monks, are those devotees and brahmans, and they are, moreover, esteemed as devotees and brahmans among those that are devotees and brahmans, and, when old, live, having known by themselves face to face and having attained in (this) seen world the objective of devotees and the objective of brahmans.’