{"id":"an4.182","title":"Guarantee","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"an4.182","title":"Guarantee","units":[{"id":"an4.182:0","sourceIds":["an4.182:0.1","an4.182:0.2","an4.182:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Aṅguttara Nikāya 4.182\n19. Brāhmaṇavagga\nPāṭibhogasutta","en":"Numbered Discourses 4.182\n19. Brahmins\nGuarantee"}},{"id":"an4.182:1","sourceIds":["an4.182:1.1","an4.182:1.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Catunnaṁ, bhikkhave, dhammānaṁ natthi koci pāṭibhogo—\nsamaṇo vā brāhmaṇo vā devo vā māro vā brahmā vā koci vā lokasmiṁ.","en":"“There are four things that no one can guarantee—\nnot an ascetic, a brahmin, a god, a Māra, a divinity, or anyone in the world."}},{"id":"an4.182:2","sourceIds":["an4.182:2.1","an4.182:2.2","an4.182:2.3","an4.182:2.4","an4.182:2.5","an4.182:2.6","an4.182:2.7","an4.182:2.8","an4.182:2.9"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Katamesaṁ catunnaṁ?\n‘Jarādhammaṁ mā jīrī’ti natthi koci pāṭibhogo—\nsamaṇo vā brāhmaṇo vā devo vā māro vā brahmā vā koci vā lokasmiṁ;\n‘byādhidhammaṁ mā byādhiyī’ti natthi koci pāṭibhogo—\nsamaṇo vā brāhmaṇo vā devo vā māro vā brahmā vā koci vā lokasmiṁ;\n‘maraṇadhammaṁ mā mīyī’ti natthi koci pāṭibhogo—\nsamaṇo vā brāhmaṇo vā devo vā māro vā brahmā vā koci vā lokasmiṁ;\n‘yāni kho pana tāni pubbe attanā katāni pāpakāni kammāni saṅkilesikāni ponobhavikāni sadarāni dukkhavipākāni āyatiṁ jātijarāmaraṇikāni, tesaṁ vipāko mā nibbattī’ti natthi koci pāṭibhogo—\nsamaṇo vā brāhmaṇo vā devo vā māro vā brahmā vā koci vā lokasmiṁ.","en":"What four?\nNo one can guarantee that someone liable to old age will not grow old.\nNo one can guarantee that someone liable to sickness will not get sick.\nNo one can guarantee that someone liable to death will not die.\nNo 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."}},{"id":"an4.182:3","sourceIds":["an4.182:3.1","an4.182:3.2","an4.182:3.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Imesaṁ kho, bhikkhave, catunnaṁ dhammānaṁ natthi koci pāṭibhogo—\nsamaṇo vā brāhmaṇo vā devo vā māro vā brahmā vā koci vā lokasmin”ti.\nDutiyaṁ.","en":"These are the four things that no one can guarantee—\nnot an ascetic, a brahmin, a god, a Māra, a divinity, or anyone in the world.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/an4.182/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."}