Unborn · Translation: Bhikkhu Sujato, SuttaCentral
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Vuttañhetaṁ bhagavatā vuttamarahatāti me sutaṁ:
This was said by the Buddha, the Perfected One: that is what I heard.
“Atthi,
bhikkhave,
ajātaṁ
abhūtaṁ
akataṁ
asaṅkhataṁ.
No
cetaṁ,
bhikkhave,
abhavissa
ajātaṁ
abhūtaṁ
akataṁ
asaṅkhataṁ,
nayidha
jātassa
bhūtassa
katassa
saṅkhatassa
nissaraṇaṁ
paññāyetha.
Yasmā
ca
kho,
bhikkhave,
atthi
ajātaṁ
abhūtaṁ
akataṁ
asaṅkhataṁ,
tasmā
jātassa
bhūtassa
katassa
saṅkhatassa
nissaraṇaṁ
paññāyatī”ti.
Etamatthaṁ
bhagavā
avoca.
Tatthetaṁ
iti
vuccati:
“There is, mendicants, freedom from rebirth, freedom from what has been produced, made, and conditioned. If there were no freedom from rebirth, freedom from what has been produced, made, and conditioned, then you would find no escape here from rebirth, from what has been produced, made, and conditioned. But since there is freedom from rebirth, freedom from what has been produced, made, and conditioned, an escape is found from rebirth, from what has been produced, made, and conditioned.” The Buddha spoke this matter. On this it is said:
“Jātaṁ
bhūtaṁ
samuppannaṁ,
kataṁ
saṅkhatamaddhuvaṁ;
Jarāmaraṇasaṅghāṭaṁ,
roganīḷaṁ
pabhaṅguraṁ.
“What’s reborn, produced, and arisen, made, conditioned, not lasting, wrapped in old age and death, frail, a nest of disease,
Āhāranettippabhavaṁ,
nālaṁ
tadabhinandituṁ;
Tassa
nissaraṇaṁ
santaṁ,
atakkāvacaraṁ
dhuvaṁ.
whose inception is the leash to food: that’s not fit to delight in. The escape from that is peaceful, beyond the scope of logic, everlasting,
Ajātaṁ
asamuppannaṁ,
asokaṁ
virajaṁ
padaṁ;
Nirodho
dukkhadhammānaṁ,
saṅkhārūpasamo
sukho”ti.
where nothing is reborn or arisen, the sorrowless, stainless state, the cessation of all painful things, the blissful stilling of conditions.”
Ayampi
attho
vutto
bhagavatā,
iti
me
sutanti.
Chaṭṭhaṁ.
This too is a matter that was spoken by the Blessed One: that is what I heard.
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