{"id":"an3.52","title":"Two Brahmins (2nd)","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"an3.52","title":"Two Brahmins (2nd)","units":[{"id":"an3.52:0","sourceIds":["an3.52:0.1","an3.52:0.2","an3.52:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Aṅguttara Nikāya 3.52\n6. Brāhmaṇavagga\nDutiyadvebrāhmaṇasutta","en":"Numbered Discourses 3.52\n6. Brahmins\nTwo Brahmins (2nd)"}},{"id":"an3.52:1","sourceIds":["an3.52:1.1","an3.52:1.2","an3.52:1.3","an3.52:1.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Atha kho dve brāhmaṇā jiṇṇā vuddhā mahallakā addhagatā vayoanuppattā vīsavassasatikā jātiyā yena bhagavā tenupasaṅkamiṁsu; upasaṅkamitvā bhagavantaṁ abhivādetvā ekamantaṁ nisīdiṁsu. Ekamantaṁ nisinnā kho te brāhmaṇā bhagavantaṁ etadavocuṁ:\n“mayamassu, bho gotama, brāhmaṇā jiṇṇā vuddhā mahallakā addhagatā vayoanuppattā vīsavassasatikā jātiyā;\nte camhā akatakalyāṇā akatakusalā akatabhīruttāṇā.\nOvadatu no bhavaṁ gotamo, anusāsatu no bhavaṁ gotamo yaṁ amhākaṁ assa dīgharattaṁ hitāya sukhāyā”ti.","en":"Then two old brahmins—elderly and senior, who were advanced in years and had reached the final stage of life, a hundred and twenty years old—went up to the Buddha, bowed, sat down to one side, and said to him:\n“We brahmins, worthy Gotama, are old, elderly and senior, we’re advanced in years and have reached the final stage of life; we’re a hundred and twenty years old.\nAnd we haven’t done what is good and skillful, nor have we made a shelter from fear.\nAdvise us, worthy Gotama, instruct us! It will be for our lasting welfare and happiness.”"}},{"id":"an3.52:2","sourceIds":["an3.52:2.1","an3.52:2.2","an3.52:2.3","an3.52:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Taggha tumhe, brāhmaṇā, jiṇṇā vuddhā mahallakā addhagatā vayoanuppattā vīsavassasatikā jātiyā;\nte cattha akatakalyāṇā akatakusalā akatabhīruttāṇā.\nĀditto kho ayaṁ, brāhmaṇā, loko jarāya byādhinā maraṇena.\nEvaṁ āditte kho, brāhmaṇā, loke jarāya byādhinā maraṇena, yo idha kāyena saṁyamo vācāya saṁyamo manasā saṁyamo, taṁ tassa petassa tāṇañca leṇañca dīpañca saraṇañca parāyaṇañcāti.","en":"“Indeed, brahmins, you’re old, elderly and senior.\nAnd you haven’t done what is good and skillful, nor have you made a shelter from fear.\nThis world is burning with old age, sickness, and death.\nBut restraint here by way of body, speech, and mind is the shelter, asylum, island, refuge, and final haven for the departed."}},{"id":"an3.52:3","sourceIds":["an3.52:3.1","an3.52:3.2","an3.52:3.3","an3.52:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ādittasmiṁ agārasmiṁ,\nyaṁ nīharati bhājanaṁ;\nTaṁ tassa hoti atthāya,\nno ca yaṁ tattha ḍayhati.","en":"When your house is on fire,\nyou rescue the pot\nthat’s useful,\nnot the one that’s burnt."}},{"id":"an3.52:4","sourceIds":["an3.52:4.1","an3.52:4.2","an3.52:4.3","an3.52:4.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Evaṁ āditto kho loko,\njarāya maraṇena ca;\nNīharetheva dānena,\ndinnaṁ hoti sunīhataṁ.","en":"And as the world is on fire\nwith old age and death,\nyou should rescue by giving,\nfor what’s given is rescued."}},{"id":"an3.52:5","sourceIds":["an3.52:5.1","an3.52:5.2","an3.52:5.3","an3.52:5.4","an3.52:5.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Yodha kāyena saṁyamo,\nVācāya uda cetasā;\nTaṁ tassa petassa sukhāya hoti,\nYaṁ jīvamāno pakaroti puññan”ti.\nDutiyaṁ.","en":"The restraint practiced here—\nof body, speech, and mind—\nleads the departed to happiness,\nas the good deeds done while living.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/an3.52/en/sujato","licence":"CC0 1.0","licenceUrl":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","editionNote":"Full supplied source file; inherited abbreviations are preserved. Not a reconstructed expansion of every repetition. No Malay or Mandarin translation is implied."}