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Guarantee

Pāṭibhogasutta

There are some things no-one can guarantee.

Translated by Bhikkhu Sujato · Pāli: Mahāsaṅgīti Tipiṭaka · Public domain (CC0) via SuttaCentral

  • 0.1Aṅguttara Nikāya 4.182Numbered Discourses 4.182
  • 0.219. Brāhmaṇavagga19. Brahmins

0.3PāṭibhogasuttaGuarantee

1.1PTS 2.172“Catunnaṁ, bhikkhave, dhammānaṁ natthi koci pāṭibhogo—“There are four things that no one can guarantee—1.2samaṇo vā brāhmaṇo vā devo vā māro vā brahmā vā koci vā lokasmiṁ.not an ascetic, a brahmin, a god, a Māra, a divinity, or anyone in the world.

2.1Katamesaṁ catunnaṁ?What four?2.2‘Jarādhammaṁ mā jīrī’ti natthi koci pāṭibhogo—No one can guarantee that someone liable to old age will not grow old.2.3samaṇo vā brāhmaṇo vā devo vā māro vā brahmā vā koci vā lokasmiṁ;2.4‘byādhidhammaṁ mā byādhiyī’ti natthi koci pāṭibhogo—No one can guarantee that someone liable to sickness will not get sick.2.5samaṇo vā brāhmaṇo vā devo vā māro vā brahmā vā koci vā lokasmiṁ;2.6‘maraṇadhammaṁ mā mīyī’ti natthi koci pāṭibhogo—No one can guarantee that someone liable to death will not die.2.7samaṇo vā brāhmaṇo vā devo vā māro vā brahmā vā koci vā lokasmiṁ;2.8‘yāni kho pana tāni pubbe attanā katāni pāpakāni kammāni saṅkilesikāni ponobhavikāni sadarāni dukkhavipākāni āyatiṁ jātijarāmaraṇikāni, tesaṁ vipāko mā nibbattī’ti natthi koci pāṭibhogo—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.2.9samaṇo vā brāhmaṇo vā devo vā māro vā brahmā vā koci vā lokasmiṁ.

3.1Imesaṁ kho, bhikkhave, catunnaṁ dhammānaṁ natthi koci pāṭibhogo—These are the four things that no one can guarantee—3.2samaṇo vā brāhmaṇo vā devo vā māro vā brahmā vā koci vā lokasmin”ti.not an ascetic, a brahmin, a god, a Māra, a divinity, or anyone in the world.”

3.3Dutiyaṁ.