{"id":"sn3.3","title":"Old Age and Death","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn3.3","title":"Old Age and Death","units":[{"id":"sn3.3:0","sourceIds":["sn3.3:0.1","sn3.3:0.2","sn3.3:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 3.3\n1. Paṭhamavagga\nJarāmaraṇasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 3.3\n1. Shackles\nOld Age and Death"}},{"id":"sn3.3:1","sourceIds":["sn3.3:1.1","sn3.3:1.2","sn3.3:1.3","sn3.3:1.4","sn3.3:1.5","sn3.3:1.6","sn3.3:1.7","sn3.3:1.8","sn3.3:1.9"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sāvatthinidānaṁ.\nEkamantaṁ nisinno kho rājā pasenadi kosalo bhagavantaṁ etadavoca:\n“atthi nu kho, bhante, jātassa aññatra jarāmaraṇā”ti?\n“Natthi kho, mahārāja, jātassa aññatra jarāmaraṇā.\nYepi te, mahārāja, khattiyamahāsālā aḍḍhā mahaddhanā mahābhogā pahūtajātarūparajatā pahūtavittūpakaraṇā pahūtadhanadhaññā, tesampi jātānaṁ natthi aññatra jarāmaraṇā.\nYepi te, mahārāja, brāhmaṇamahāsālā …pe…\ngahapatimahāsālā aḍḍhā mahaddhanā mahābhogā pahūtajātarūparajatā pahūtavittūpakaraṇā pahūtadhanadhaññā, tesampi jātānaṁ natthi aññatra jarāmaraṇā.\nYepi te, mahārāja, bhikkhū arahanto khīṇāsavā vusitavanto katakaraṇīyā ohitabhārā anuppattasadatthā parikkhīṇabhavasaṁyojanā sammadaññāvimuttā, tesampāyaṁ kāyo bhedanadhammo nikkhepanadhammo”ti.\nIdamavoca …pe…","en":"At Sāvatthī.\nSeated to one side, King Pasenadi said to the Buddha,\n“Sir, for someone who has been reborn, is there any exemption from old age and death?”\n“Great king, for someone who has been reborn, there’s no exemption from old age and death.\nEven for well-to-do aristocrats,\nbrahmins,\nor householders—rich, affluent, and wealthy, with lots of gold and silver, lots of property and assets, and lots of money and grain—when they’re born, there’s no exemption from old age and death.\nEven for mendicants who are perfected—who have ended the defilements, completed the spiritual journey, done what had to be done, laid down the burden, achieved their heart’s goal, utterly ended the fetter of continued existence, and are rightly freed through enlightenment—their bodies are liable to break up and be laid to rest.”\nThat is what the Buddha said. …"}},{"id":"sn3.3:2","sourceIds":["sn3.3:2.1","sn3.3:2.2","sn3.3:2.3","sn3.3:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Jīranti ve rājarathā sucittā,\nAtho sarīrampi jaraṁ upeti;\nSatañca dhammo na jaraṁ upeti,\nSanto have sabbhi pavedayantī”ti.","en":"“Fancy chariots of kings wear out,\nand even this body gets old.\nBut the truth of the good never gets old—\nso the good proclaim to the good.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn3.3/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."}