{"id":"sn14.37","title":"Ascetics and Brahmins","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn14.37","title":"Ascetics and Brahmins","units":[{"id":"sn14.37:0","sourceIds":["sn14.37:0.1","sn14.37:0.2","sn14.37:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 14.37\n4. Catutthavagga\nSamaṇabrāhmaṇasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 14.37\n4. Chapter Four\nAscetics and Brahmins"}},{"id":"sn14.37:1","sourceIds":["sn14.37:1.1","sn14.37:1.2","sn14.37:1.3","sn14.37:1.4","sn14.37:1.5","sn14.37:1.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sāvatthiyaṁ viharati.\n“Catasso imā, bhikkhave, dhātuyo.\nKatamā catasso?\nPathavīdhātu, āpodhātu, tejodhātu, vāyodhātu.\nYe hi keci, bhikkhave, samaṇā vā brāhmaṇā vā imāsaṁ catunnaṁ dhātūnaṁ assādañca ādīnavañca nissaraṇañca yathābhūtaṁ nappajānanti,\nna me te, bhikkhave, samaṇā vā brāhmaṇā vā samaṇesu vā samaṇasammatā brāhmaṇesu vā brāhmaṇasammatā; na ca pana te āyasmanto sāmaññatthaṁ vā brahmaññatthaṁ vā diṭṭheva dhamme sayaṁ abhiññā sacchikatvā upasampajja viharanti.","en":"At Sāvatthī.\n“Mendicants, there are these four elements.\nWhat four?\nThe elements of earth, water, fire, and air.\nThere are ascetics and brahmins who don’t truly understand these four elements’ gratification, drawback, and escape.\nI don’t deem them as true ascetics and brahmins. Those venerables don’t realize the goal of life as an ascetic or brahmin, and don’t live having realized it with their own insight in this very life."}},{"id":"sn14.37:2","sourceIds":["sn14.37:2.1","sn14.37:2.2","sn14.37:2.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ye ca kho keci, bhikkhave, samaṇā vā brāhmaṇā vā imāsaṁ catunnaṁ dhātūnaṁ assādañca ādīnavañca nissaraṇañca yathābhūtaṁ pajānanti,\nte ca kho me, bhikkhave, samaṇā vā brāhmaṇā vā samaṇesu ceva samaṇasammatā brāhmaṇesu ca brāhmaṇasammatā; te ca panāyasmanto sāmaññatthañca brahmaññatthañca diṭṭheva dhamme sayaṁ abhiññā sacchikatvā upasampajja viharantī”ti.\nAṭṭhamaṁ.","en":"There are ascetics and brahmins who do truly understand these four elements’ gratification, drawback, and escape.\nI 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.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn14.37/en/sujato","licence":"CC0 1.0","licenceUrl":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","editionNote":"Full supplied source file; inherited abbreviations are preserved. Not a reconstructed expansion of every repetition. No Malay or Mandarin translation is implied."}