mn136:16.1 In this case, when an ascetic or brahmin says this:
mn136:16.2 ‘It seems that there is no such thing as good deeds, and the result of good conduct,’ I don’t grant them that.
mn136:16.3 But when they say:
mn136:16.4 ‘I have seen an individual here who refrained from killing living creatures … and had right view. And after death, they were reborn in hell,’ I grant them that.
mn136:16.5 But when they say:
mn136:16.6 ‘It seems that everyone who refrains from killing living creatures … and has right view is reborn in hell,’ I don’t grant them that.
mn136:16.7 But when they say: ‘Those whose notion is this have the right notion.
mn136:16.8 Those whose notion is otherwise have a wrong notion,’ I also don’t grant them that.
mn136:16.9 And when they obstinately stick to what they have known, seen, and understood for themselves, insisting that: ‘This is the only truth, anything else is futile,’ I also don’t grant them that.
mn136:16.10 Why is that?
mn136:16.11 Because the Realized One’s knowledge of the great analysis of deeds is otherwise.