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Saṃyutta Nikāya · Discourse 56.6

Ascetics and Brahmins (2nd)

Dutiyasamaṇabrāhmaṇasutta — Samādhivagga

Setting
Not given — continuing directly from SN 56.5's own setting
Speaker
The Buddha, addressing the mendicants directly
Form
A threefold claim across past, future, and present, partly elided
Length
<1 minute to read
Northern parallel
No individual parallel confirmed by this project's own check
Significance
★★ — the sixth of ten discourses, closing this vagga's own opening trio of paired discourses

Why this discourse

Confirmed by direct comparison against SN 56.5, this discourse shifts from private awakening to its own public declaration: any ascetic or brahmin who has ever “revealed” or “proclaimed” that they are awakened, this discourse claims, has thereby proclaimed awakening to the four noble truths specifically — shifting attention from the fact of realization to the act of announcing it.

Reading guide

From awakening itself to its own proclamation

This project's own direct comparison against SN 56.5: that discourse concerned the fact of true awakening itself; this discourse instead concerns the proclamation of having awakened — a distinct act, since a claim to awakening could in principle be made falsely, though this discourse itself does not raise that possibility explicitly.

Key terms

yathābhūtaṁ abhisambuddhaṁ pakāsesuṁ — “revealed that they are truly awakened” — this discourse's own verb, shifted from SN 56.5's own "truly awakened" to a public act of proclamation
pakāsesuṁ — “revealed, proclaimed, made known” — the key shift from private attainment to public declaration
cattāri ariyasaccāni yathābhūtaṁ abhisambuddhaṁ pakāsenti — “proclaim that they are truly awakened to the four noble truths” — this discourse's own claim about what any such proclamation always turns out to concern
… — the elision marking, standing in for the repeated temporal refrain and the four truths' own full listing
chaṭṭhaṁ — “the sixth” — this discourse's own root text confirming its own position directly, read rather than assumed

The text

Every genuinely translated fragment given in the consulted English source, which itself preserves the elision. Translation: Bhikkhu Sujato (CC0, SuttaCentral).

§1“Mendicants, whatever ascetics and brahmins—past, future, or present—reveal that they are awakened, all of them reveal that they truly awakened to the four noble truths. What four? The noble truths of suffering, the origin of suffering, the cessation of suffering, and the practice that leads to the cessation of suffering. … That’s why you should practice meditation …”

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Self-check quiz

3 questions. Click an answer to see immediate feedback. No score is recorded — this is for your own checking.

Question 1 of 3
How does this discourse's own concern differ from SN 56.5's own concern, per this project's own direct comparison?
Correct: A. This project's own reading of a genuine shift from attainment to its own declaration.
Question 2 of 3
What does "pakāsesuṁ" mean?
Correct: A. Confirmed by direct reading — the key term marking this discourse's own shift to public declaration.
Question 3 of 3
What position does this discourse occupy in this vagga's own ten-discourse sequence, and what trio does it close?
Correct: A. Confirmed by direct reading of the sequence's own order and this project's own tracked pairing pattern.
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Further reading

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