← Saṃyutta NikāyaSN48.7Connected Discourses 48.7SuttaCentral (Bhikkhu Sujato translation)Select any verse to keep it — saved passages go to your Dhamma Deck, the same one the app uses.Linked Discourses 48.71. Plain VersionAscetics and Brahmins (2nd)“Mendicants, there are ascetics and brahmins who don’t understand the faculty of faith, its origin, its cessation, and the practice that leads to its cessation.They don’t understand the faculty of energy …mindfulness …immersion …wisdom, its origin, its cessation, and the practice that leads to its cessation.I 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.There are ascetics and brahmins who do understand the faculty of faith, its origin, its cessation, and the practice that leads to its cessation.They do understand the faculty of energy …mindfulness …immersion …wisdom, 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.”