{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn48.34/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn48.34","id":"suttacentral_sn48.34","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn48.34/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"\u201cMendicants, there are these five faculties. What five? The faculties of pleasure, pain, happiness, sadness, and equanimity. There are ascetics and brahmins who don\u2019t truly understand the origin, disappearance, gratification, drawback, and escape when it comes to these five 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 five 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":128}