4.
The Discourse on Kāḷaka's Park
24.
On one occasion the Blessed One was dwelling at Sāketa in the Kāḷaka Park.
There the Blessed One addressed the monks thus:
"Monks."
"Venerable sir," those monks assented to the Blessed One.
The Blessed One said this:
"Whatever, monks, in the world with its gods, with its Māras, with its Brahmās, among the generation with its ascetics and brahmins, with its gods and humans, has been seen, heard, sensed, cognised, attained, sought after, pondered over by the mind - that I know.
"Whatever, monks, in the world with its gods, with its Māras, with its Brahmās, among the generation with its ascetics and brahmins, with its gods and humans, has been seen, heard, sensed, cognised, attained, sought after, pondered over by the mind - that I have directly known. That has been understood by the Truth-finder; to that the Truth-finder has not clung.
"Whatever, monks, in the world with its gods, with its Māras, with its Brahmās, among the generation with its ascetics and brahmins, with its gods and humans, has been seen, heard, sensed, cognised, attained, sought after, pondered over by the mind - were I to say 'I do not know that,' that would be false on my part.
"Whatever, monks, etc. were I to say 'I both know and do not know that,' that too would be just the same.
"Whatever, monks, etc. were I to say 'I neither know nor do not know that,' that would be a fault on my part.
"Thus, monks, the Truth-finder, having seen what is to be seen, does not imagine the seen, does not imagine the unseen, does not imagine what is to be seen, does not imagine a seer; having heard what is to be heard, does not imagine the heard, does not imagine the unheard, does not imagine what is to be heard, does not imagine a hearer; having sensed what is to be sensed, does not imagine the sensed, does not imagine the unsensed, does not imagine what is to be sensed, does not imagine a senser; having cognised what is to be cognised, does not imagine the cognised, does not imagine the uncognised, does not imagine what is to be cognised, does not imagine a cogniser. Thus, monks, the Truth-finder, regarding phenomena to be seen, heard, sensed, and cognised, is just such a one, such. And I say that there is no other such one more superior or more sublime than that such one."
Clung to, held as truth by others;
Among those self-restrained views, such a one
Would not affirm as true or false what is supreme.
Where the generation, attached, is entangled;
I know, I see, it is just so -
There is no clinging for the Truth-finders." The fourth.