{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn12.30/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn12.30","id":"suttacentral_sn12.30","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn12.30/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 old age and death, their origin, their cessation, and the practice that leads to their cessation. It\u2019s impossible that they will abide having transcended old age and death. 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. It\u2019s impossible that they will abide having transcended choices. There are ascetics and brahmins who do understand old age and death, their origin, their cessation, and the practice that leads to their cessation. It\u2019s possible that they will abide having transcended old age and death. 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. It\u2019s possible that they will abide having transcended choices.\u201d","title":"Ascetics and Brahmins (2nd)","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":177}