Saṃyutta Nikāya
3. Khandha Vagga
22. Khandha Saṃyutta
11. Anta Vagga
The Book of the Kindred Sayings
3. The Book Called the Khandhā-Vagga
Containing Kindred Sayings on the Elements of Sensory Existence and other Subjects
22. Kindred Sayings on Elements
11. On Separates
Sutta 107
Paṭhama Samaṇa Suttaṃ
Recluses (1)
Translated by F. L. Woodward
Edited by Mrs. Rhys Davids
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[1] Thus have I heard:
The Exalted One was once staying near Sāvatthī
at the Jeta Grove in Anāthapiṇḍika's Park.
And there the Exalted One addressed the brethren, saying:
"Brethren!"
"Master!" responded those brethren.
The Exalted One said:
"Brethren, there are these five grasping-groups.
What five?
The body-grasping group,
the feeling-grasping-group,
the perception-grasping-group,
the activities-grasping-group,
the consciousness-grasping-group.
Whatsoever recluses or brahmins, brethren,
understand not as they really are
the satisfaction in,
the misery of,
the escape from the five grasping-groups[1]
they, for me, are not approved of among recluses as recluses
nor among brahmins as brahmins,
nor have those venerable ones come
even in this life
fully to know of themselves,
to realize,
to live
in the attainment of,
the good of
being recluse or brahmin.
But whatsoever recluses or brahmins, brethren,
understand as they really are
the satisfaction in,
the misery of,
the escape from the five grasping-groups
they, for me, are approved of among recluses as recluses
and among brahmins as brahmins,
and those venerable ones have come
even in this life
fully to know of themselves,
to realize,
to live
in the attainment of,
the good of
being recluse or brahmin."
[1] Cf. S. ii, § 37 (8): K.S. ii, 117; above, pp. 108, 127.
