{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn23.5/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn23.5","id":"suttacentral_sn23.5","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn23.5/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"At S\u0101vatth\u012b. When Venerable R\u0101dha was seated to one side, the Buddha said to him: \u201cR\u0101dha, there are these five grasping aggregates. What five? The grasping aggregates of form, feeling, perception, choices, and consciousness. There are ascetics and brahmins who don\u2019t truly understand these five grasping aggregates\u2019 gratification, drawback, and escape. 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 these five grasping aggregates\u2019 gratification, drawback, and escape. 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":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":133}