SN.22.107. Samaṇasutta ("Ascetics, 1st")

Saṁyutta Nikāya ("The Linked Discourses")

At Sāvatthī.

“Mendicants, there are these five grasping aggregates. What five? That is, the grasping aggregates of form, feeling, perception, choices, and consciousness.

There are ascetics and brahmins who don’t truly understand these five grasping aggregates’ gratification, drawback, and escape …

There are ascetics and brahmins who do truly understand …”



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