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SN 17.27

Tatiyasamaṇabrāhmaṇa sutta: Ascetics and Brahmins (3rd)

Tatiyasamaṇabrāhmaṇasutta

Tatiyavagga

Someone who doesn’t fully understand material possessions, honor, and praise is no true ascetic.

Translations

At Sāvatthī.

“There are ascetics and brahmins who don’t truly understand possessions, honor, and popularity, their origin, their cessation, and the path that leads to their cessation …

There are ascetics and brahmins who do truly understand …”

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