{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn48.29/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn48.29","id":"suttacentral_sn48.29","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn48.29/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"\u201cMendicants, there are these six faculties. What six? The faculties of the eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind. There are ascetics and brahmins who don\u2019t truly understand the origin, disappearance, gratification, drawback, and escape when it comes to these six faculties. 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 origin, disappearance, gratification, drawback, and escape when it comes to these six faculties. 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 (1st)","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":130}