{"id":"sn48.41","title":"Old Age","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn48.41","title":"Old Age","units":[{"id":"sn48.41:0","sourceIds":["sn48.41:0.1","sn48.41:0.2","sn48.41:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 48.41\n5. Jarāvagga\nJarādhammasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 48.41\n5. Old Age\nOld Age"}},{"id":"sn48.41:1","sourceIds":["sn48.41:1.1","sn48.41:1.2","sn48.41:1.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Evaṁ me sutaṁ—\nekaṁ samayaṁ bhagavā sāvatthiyaṁ viharati pubbārāme migāramātupāsāde.\nTena kho pana samayena bhagavā sāyanhasamayaṁ paṭisallānā vuṭṭhito pacchātape nisinno hoti piṭṭhiṁ otāpayamāno.","en":"So I have heard.\nAt one time the Buddha was staying near Sāvatthī in the stilt longhouse of Migāra’s mother in the Eastern Monastery.\nThen in the late afternoon, the Buddha came out of retreat and sat warming his back in the last rays of the sun."}},{"id":"sn48.41:2","sourceIds":["sn48.41:2.1","sn48.41:2.2","sn48.41:2.3","sn48.41:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Atha kho āyasmā ānando yena bhagavā tenupasaṅkami; upasaṅkamitvā bhagavantaṁ abhivādetvā bhagavato gattāni pāṇinā anomajjanto bhagavantaṁ etadavoca:\n“acchariyaṁ, bhante, abbhutaṁ, bhante.\nNa cevaṁ dāni, bhante, bhagavato tāva parisuddho chavivaṇṇo pariyodāto, sithilāni ca gattāni sabbāni valiyajātāni, purato pabbhāro ca kāyo, dissati ca indriyānaṁ aññathattaṁ—\ncakkhundriyassa sotindriyassa ghānindriyassa jivhindriyassa kāyindriyassā”ti.","en":"Then Venerable Ānanda went up to the Buddha, bowed, and while massaging the Buddha’s limbs he said:\n“It’s incredible, sir, it’s amazing,\nhow the complexion of your skin is no longer pure and bright. Your limbs are flaccid and wrinkled, and your body is stooped. And it’s apparent that there has been a deterioration in your faculties\nof eye, ear, nose, tongue, and body.”"}},{"id":"sn48.41:3","sourceIds":["sn48.41:3.1","sn48.41:3.2","sn48.41:3.3","sn48.41:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Evañhetaṁ, ānanda, hoti—\njarādhammo yobbaññe, byādhidhammo ārogye, maraṇadhammo jīvite.\nNa ceva tāva parisuddho hoti chavivaṇṇo pariyodāto, sithilāni ca honti gattāni sabbāni valiyajātāni, purato pabbhāro ca kāyo, dissati ca indriyānaṁ aññathattaṁ—\ncakkhundriyassa sotindriyassa ghānindriyassa jivhindriyassa kāyindriyassā”ti.","en":"“That’s how it is, Ānanda.\nWhen young you’re liable to grow old; when healthy you’re liable to get sick; and when alive you’re liable to die.\nThe complexion of the skin is no longer pure and bright. The limbs are flaccid and wrinkled, and the body is stooped. And it’s apparent that there has been a deterioration in the faculties\nof eye, ear, nose, tongue, and body.”"}},{"id":"sn48.41:4","sourceIds":["sn48.41:4.1","sn48.41:4.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Idamavoca bhagavā.\nIdaṁ vatvā ca sugato athāparaṁ etadavoca satthā:","en":"That is what the Buddha said.\nThen the Holy One, the Teacher, went on to say:"}},{"id":"sn48.41:5","sourceIds":["sn48.41:5.1","sn48.41:5.2","sn48.41:5.3","sn48.41:5.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Dhī taṁ jammi jare atthu,\ndubbaṇṇakaraṇī jare;\nTāva manoramaṁ bimbaṁ,\njarāya abhimadditaṁ.","en":"“Curse this wretched old age,\nwhich makes you so ugly.\nThat’s how much this delightful puppet\nis ground down by old age."}},{"id":"sn48.41:6","sourceIds":["sn48.41:6.1","sn48.41:6.2","sn48.41:6.3","sn48.41:6.4","sn48.41:6.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Yopi vassasataṁ jīve,\nsopi maccuparāyaṇo;\nNa kiñci parivajjeti,\nsabbamevābhimaddatī”ti.\nPaṭhamaṁ.","en":"Even if you live for a hundred years,\nyou’ll still end up dying.\nDeath spares no one,\nbut crushes all underfoot.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn48.41/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."}