{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn14.39/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn14.39","id":"suttacentral_sn14.39","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn14.39/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 the earth element, its origin, its cessation, and the practice that leads to its cessation. They don\u2019t understand the water element \u2026 fire element \u2026 air element \u2026 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 the earth element, its origin, its cessation, and the practice that leads to its cessation. They do understand the water element \u2026 the fire element \u2026 the air element \u2026 Those venerables realize the goal of life as an ascetic or brahmin, and live having realized it with their own insight.\u201d The Linked Discourses on the elements are complete.","title":"Ascetics and Brahmins (3rd)","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":133}