{"id":"sn1.76","title":"Getting Old","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn1.76","title":"Getting Old","units":[{"id":"sn1.76:0","sourceIds":["sn1.76:0.1","sn1.76:0.2","sn1.76:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 1.76\n8. Chetvāvagga\nNajīratisutta","en":"Linked Discourses 1.76\n8. Slain\nGetting Old"}},{"id":"sn1.76:1","sourceIds":["sn1.76:1.1","sn1.76:1.2","sn1.76:1.3","sn1.76:1.4","sn1.76:1.5","sn1.76:1.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Kiṁ jīrati kiṁ na jīrati,\nkiṁsu uppathoti vuccati;\nKiṁsu dhammānaṁ paripantho,\nkiṁsu rattindivakkhayo;\nKiṁ malaṁ brahmacariyassa,\nkiṁ sinānamanodakaṁ.","en":"“What ages, what does not age?\nWhat’s called a deviation?\nWhat’s a roadblock for skillful qualities?\nWhat is ending day and night?\nWhat’s the stain of celibacy?\nWhat’s the waterless bath?"}},{"id":"sn1.76:2","sourceIds":["sn1.76:2.1","sn1.76:2.2","sn1.76:2.3","sn1.76:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Kati lokasmiṁ chiddāni,\nyattha vittaṁ na tiṭṭhati;\nBhagavantaṁ puṭṭhumāgamma,\nkathaṁ jānemu taṁ mayan”ti.","en":"How many holes are there in the world,\nwhere one’s wealth leaks out?\nWe’ve come to ask the worthy sir:\nhow are we to understand this?”"}},{"id":"sn1.76:3","sourceIds":["sn1.76:3.1","sn1.76:3.2","sn1.76:3.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Rūpaṁ jīrati maccānaṁ,\nnāmagottaṁ na jīrati;\nRāgo uppathoti vuccati.","en":"“The physical form of mortals gets old,\nbut their name and clan don’t.\nLust is called a deviation,"}},{"id":"sn1.76:4","sourceIds":["sn1.76:4.1","sn1.76:4.2","sn1.76:4.3","sn1.76:4.4","sn1.76:4.5","sn1.76:4.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Lobho dhammānaṁ paripantho,\nVayo rattindivakkhayo;\nItthī malaṁ brahmacariyassa,\nEtthāyaṁ sajjate pajā;\nTapo ca brahmacariyañca,\nTaṁ sinānamanodakaṁ.","en":"and greed is a roadblock for skillful qualities.\nYouth is ending day and night.\nWomen are the stain of chastity,\nto which this generation clings.\nFervor and chastity\nare the waterless bath."}},{"id":"sn1.76:5","sourceIds":["sn1.76:5.1","sn1.76:5.2","sn1.76:5.3","sn1.76:5.4","sn1.76:5.5","sn1.76:5.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Cha lokasmiṁ chiddāni,\nyattha vittaṁ na tiṭṭhati;\nĀlasyañca pamādo ca,\nanuṭṭhānaṁ asaṁyamo;\nNiddā tandī ca te chidde,\nsabbaso taṁ vivajjaye”ti.","en":"There are six holes in the world,\nwhere one’s wealth leaks out:\nlaziness and negligence,\nlack of initiative and lack of restraint,\nsleepiness and sloth.\nYou should completely get rid of these holes!”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn1.76/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."}