{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an3.106/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an3.106","id":"suttacentral_an3.106","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an3.106/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"\u201cMendicants, there are ascetics and brahmins who don\u2019t truly understand the world\u2019s gratification, drawback, and escape for what they are. I don\u2019t deem them as true ascetics and brahmins. Those venerables don\u2019t realize the goal of life as an ascetic or brahmin, and don\u2019t live having realized it with their own insight in this very life. There are ascetics and brahmins who do truly understand the world\u2019s gratification, drawback, and escape for what they are. I deem them as true ascetics and brahmins. Those venerables realize the goal of life as an ascetic or brahmin, and live having realized it with their own insight.\u201d","title":"Ascetics and Brahmins","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":104}