{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn48.30/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn48.30","id":"suttacentral_sn48.30","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn48.30/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"\u201cMendicants, there are ascetics and brahmins who don\u2019t understand the eye faculty, its origin, its cessation, and the practice that leads to its cessation. They don\u2019t understand the ear faculty \u2026 nose faculty \u2026 tongue faculty \u2026 body faculty \u2026 mind faculty, its origin, its cessation, and the practice that leads to its 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 the eye faculty, its origin, its cessation, and the practice that leads to its cessation. They understand the ear faculty \u2026 nose faculty \u2026 tongue faculty \u2026 body faculty \u2026 mind faculty, its origin, its cessation, and the practice that leads to its 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":171}