Saṃyutta Nikāya
3. Khandha Vagga
22. Khandha Saṃyutta
2. Dutiya Anicca Vagga
The Book of the Kindred Sayings
3. The Book Called the Khandhā-Vagga
Containing Kindred Sayings on the Elements of Sensory Existence and other Subjects
22. Kindred Sayings on Elements
2. The Second on Impermanence
Sutta 12
Anicca Suttaṃ
Impermanence
Translated by F. L. Woodward
Edited by Mrs. Rhys Davids
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The Exalted One was staying at Sāvatthī.
The Exalted One said:
"Body, brethren, is impermanent,
feeling, is impermanent,
perception, is impermanent,
the activities, are impermanent,
consciousness is impermanent.
So seeing, brethren, the well-taught Ariyan disciple
is repelled by body,
is repelled by feeling,
is repelled by perception,
is repelled by the activities
is repelled by consciousness.
Being repelled
he lusts[1] not
not lusting he is set free
in this freedom comes insight
that it is a being free.
Thus he realizes:
'Rebirth is destroyed,
lived is the righteous life,
done is my task,
for life in these conditions
there is no hereafter.'"[2]
[1] Virajjati, virāgo, translated just above 'dispassion.'
[2] Nāparaṃ itthattāyā ti pajānāti. Cf. K.S. ii, 17; n. S. ii, 20, etc. Buddhaghosa, explaining the phrase at DA. 226, says: idāni vatta-māna-kkhandha-santānā aparaṃ khandha-santānaṃ n'atthi. After the present life-continuum of the fivefold mass has run its course, there is no further life-continuum of the fivefold mass for me.'
