Saɱyutta Nikāya
4. Saḷāyatana Vagga
36. Vedanā Saɱyutta
3. Aṭṭha-Sata-Pariyāya Vagga
Sutta 28 [WP 29)
Tatiya Samaṇa-Brāhmaṇā Suttaɱ
Ascetics and Brahmins (3)
Translated by Bhikkhu Bodhi
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[1][pts] "Bhikkhus, there are these three feelings.
What three?
Pleasant feeling, painful feeling, neither-painful-nor-pleasant feeling.
"Those ascetics or brahmins, bhikkhus, who do not understand feeling, its origin, its cessation, and the way leading to its cessation:: these I do not consider to be ascetics among ascetics or brahmins among brahmins, and these venerable ones do not, by realizing it for themselves with direct knowledge, in this very life enter and dwell in the goal of asceticism or the goal of brahminhood.
"But, bhikkhus, those ascetics and brahmins who understand feeling, its origin, its cessation, and the way leading to its cessation: these I consider to be ascetics among ascetics and brahmins among brahmins, and these venerable ones, by realizing it for themselves with direct knowledge, in this very life enter and dwell in the goal of asceticism and the goal of brahminhood."
