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Numbered Discourses 4.182 – Aṅguttara Nikāya 4.182

19. Brahmins – 19. Brāhmaṇavagga

AN 4.182 Guarantee – Pāṭibhogasutta

 

1.1

“There are four things that no-one can guarantee—

“Catunnaṁ, bhikkhave, dhammānaṁ natthi koci pāṭibhogo—

1.2

not an ascetic, a brahmin, a god, a Māra, a Brahmā, or anyone in the world.

samaṇo vā brāhmaṇo vā devo vā māro vā brahmā vā koci vā lokasmiṁ.

2.1

What four?

Katamesaṁ catunnaṁ?

2.2

No-one can guarantee that someone liable to old age will not grow old.

‘Jarādhammaṁ mā jīrī’ti natthi koci pāṭibhogo—

2.3

 

samaṇo vā brāhmaṇo vā devo vā māro vā brahmā vā koci vā lokasmiṁ;

2.4

No-one can guarantee that someone liable to sickness will not get sick.

‘byādhidhammaṁ mā byādhiyī’ti natthi koci pāṭibhogo—

2.5

 

samaṇo vā brāhmaṇo vā devo vā māro vā brahmā vā koci vā lokasmiṁ;

2.6

No-one can guarantee that someone liable to death will not die.

‘maraṇadhammaṁ mā mīyī’ti natthi koci pāṭibhogo—

2.7

 

samaṇo vā brāhmaṇo vā devo vā māro vā brahmā vā koci vā lokasmiṁ;

2.8

No-one can guarantee that the bad deeds done in past lives—corrupting, leading to future lives, hurtful, resulting in suffering and future rebirth, old age, and death—will not produce their result.

‘yāni kho pana tāni pubbe attanā katāni pāpakāni kammāni saṅkilesikāni ponobhavikāni sadarāni dukkhavipākāni āyatiṁ jātijarāmaraṇikāni, tesaṁ vipāko mā nibbattī’ti natthi koci pāṭibhogo—

2.9

 

samaṇo vā brāhmaṇo vā devo vā māro vā brahmā vā koci vā lokasmiṁ.

3.1

These are the four things that no-one can guarantee—

Imesaṁ kho, bhikkhave, catunnaṁ dhammānaṁ natthi koci pāṭibhogo—

3.2

not an ascetic, a brahmin, a god, a Māra, a Brahmā, or anyone in the world.”

samaṇo vā brāhmaṇo vā devo vā māro vā brahmā vā koci vā lokasmin”ti.

3.3

 

Dutiyaṁ.