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Linked Discourses · SN 23.6

  • Linked Discourses 23.6Saṁyutta Nikāya 23.6
  • 1. About Māra1. Paṭhamamāravagga

Ascetics and Brahmins (2nd)Dutiyasamaṇasutta

At Sāvatthī.Sāvatthinidānaṁ.

When Venerable Rādha was seated to one side, the Buddha said to him:Ekamantaṁ nisinnaṁ kho āyasmantaṁ rādhaṁ bhagavā etadavoca:

“Rādha, there are these five grasping aggregates.“pañcime, rādha, upādānakkhandhā. What five?Katame pañca? The grasping aggregates of form, feeling, perception, choices, and consciousness.Rūpupādānakkhandho …pe… viññāṇupādānakkhandho.

There are ascetics and brahmins who don’t truly understand these five grasping aggregates’ origin, disappearance, gratification, drawback, and escape … Those venerables don’t realize the goal of life as an ascetic or brahmin …Ye hi keci, rādha, samaṇā vā brāhmaṇā vā imesaṁ pañcannaṁ upādānakkhandhānaṁ samudayañca atthaṅgamañca assādañca ādīnavañca nissaraṇañca yathābhūtaṁ nappajānanti …pe…

There are ascetics and brahmins who do truly understand … Those venerables realize the goal of life as an ascetic or brahmin, and live having realized it with their own insight.”sayaṁ abhiññā sacchikatvā upasampajja viharantī”ti.

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