sn.48.35 Saṁyutta Nikāya (Linked Discourses)

Ascetics and Brahmins (2nd)

“Mendicants, there are these five faculties.
What five?
The faculties of pleasure, pain, happiness, sadness, and equanimity.
“Mendicants, there are ascetics and brahmins who don’t understand the faculty of pleasure, its origin, its cessation, and the practice that leads to its cessation.
There are ascetics and brahmins who don’t understand the faculty of pain …
happiness …
sadness …
equanimity, its origin, its cessation, and the practice that leads to its cessation.
I don’t regard 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.
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 …
happiness …
sadness …
equanimity, its origin, its cessation, and the practice that leads to its cessation.
I regard 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.”