5.
The Discourse on Ascetics
164.
At Sāvatthī.
To the Venerable Rādha seated to one side, the Blessed One said this:
"These are the five aggregates of clinging, Rādha.
Which five?
The aggregate of clinging to matter, the aggregate of clinging to feeling, the aggregate of clinging to perception, the aggregate of clinging to activities, the aggregate of clinging to consciousness.
Whatever ascetics or brahmins, Rādha, who do not understand as it really is the gratification, danger, and escape of these five aggregates of clinging;
they are not for me, Rādha, ascetics or brahmins who are considered ascetics among ascetics or considered brahmins among brahmins; and those venerable ones do not dwell having attained the goal of asceticism or the goal of the holy life in this very life, having realised by direct knowledge themselves.
But whatever ascetics or brahmins, Rādha, who understand as it really is the gratification, danger, and escape of these five aggregates of clinging;
they are for me, Rādha, ascetics or brahmins who are considered ascetics among ascetics and considered brahmins among brahmins; and those venerable ones dwell having attained the goal of asceticism and the goal of the holy life in this very life, having realised by direct knowledge themselves."
The fifth.