{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn48.35/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn48.35","id":"suttacentral_sn48.35","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn48.35/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. Mendicants, there are ascetics and brahmins who don\u2019t understand the faculty of pleasure, its origin, its cessation, and the practice that leads to its cessation. There are ascetics and brahmins who don\u2019t understand the faculty of pain \u2026 happiness \u2026 sadness \u2026 equanimity, 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 faculty of pleasure, its origin, its cessation, and the practice that leads to its cessation. There are ascetics and brahmins who do understand the faculty of pain \u2026 happiness \u2026 sadness \u2026 equanimity, 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":191}