{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn12.14/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn12.14","id":"suttacentral_sn12.14","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn12.14/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"At S\u0101vatth\u012b. \u201cMendicants, there are ascetics and brahmins who don\u2019t understand these things, their origin, their cessation, and the practice that leads to their cessation. What things don\u2019t they understand? They don\u2019t understand old age and death, their origin, their cessation, and the practice that leads to their cessation. They don\u2019t understand rebirth \u2026 continued existence \u2026 grasping \u2026 craving \u2026 feeling \u2026 contact \u2026 the six sense fields \u2026 name and form \u2026 consciousness \u2026 They don\u2019t understand choices, their origin, their cessation, and the practice that leads to their cessation. They don\u2019t understand these things, their origin, their cessation, and the practice that leads to their cessation. 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 understand these things, their origin, their cessation, and the practice that leads to their cessation. What things do they understand? They understand old age and death, their origin, their cessation, and the practice that leads to their cessation. They understand rebirth \u2026 continued existence \u2026 grasping \u2026 craving \u2026 feeling \u2026 contact \u2026 the six sense fields \u2026 name and form \u2026 consciousness \u2026 They understand choices, their origin, their cessation, and the practice that leads to their cessation. They understand these things, their origin, their cessation, and the practice that leads to their cessation. 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 (2nd)","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":276}