Anguttara Nikāya - The Numerical Discourses

4: The Book of the Fours

182. Guarantor

1 For four liabilities, O bhikkhus, there is not any guarantor, whether samana or brahmana or Deva or Maro or Brahma or any one in the world. What four?

2 “Let what is liable to old age not grow old.” There is not any guarantor, whether samana or brahmana or Deva or Maro or Brahma or any one in the world.

3 “Let what is liable to sickness not get sick.” There is not any guarantor, whether samana or brahmana or Deva or Maro or Brahma or any one in the world.

4 “Let what is liable to death not die.” There is not any guarantor, whether samana or brahmana or Deva or Maro or Brahma or any one in the world.

5 “For those evil kamma which are defiling, renewing a being, dreadful, ripening in suffering, bound up with future birth, old age and death, let their results not actualize.” There is not any guarantor, whether samana or brahmana or Deva or Maro or Brahma or any one in the world.

6 “For these four liabilities, O bhikkhus, there is not any guarantor, whether samana or brahmana or Deva or Maro or Brahma or any one in the world.”

1 catunnaṃ bhikkhave dhammānaṃ natthi ko ci pāṭibhogo samaṇo vā brāhmaṇo vā devo vā māro vā brahmā vā koci vā lokasmiṃ katamesaṃ catunnaṃ?

2 jarādhammaṃ mā jīriti natthi ko ci pāṭibhogo samaṇo vā brāhmaṇo vā devo vā māro vā brahmā vā ko ci vā lokasmiṃ.

3 vyādhidhammaṃ mā vyādhīyīti natthi ko ci pāṭibhogo samaṇo vā brāhmaṇo vā devo vā māro vā brahmā vā ko ci vā lokasmiṃ.

4 maraṇadhammaṃ mā mīyīti natthi ko ci pāṭibhogo samaṇo vā brāhmaṇo vā devo vā māro vā brahmā vā ko ci vā lokasmiṃ.

5 yāni kho pana tāni pāpakāni kammāni saṃkilesikāni ponobhavikāni sadarāni dukkhavipākāni āyatiṃ jātijarāmaraṇikāni. tesaṃ vipāko mā nibbattīti natthi ko ci pāṭibhogo samaṇo vā brāhmaṇo vā devo vā māro vā brahmā vā ko ci vā lokasmiṃ.

6 imesaṃ kho bhikkhave catunnaṃ dhammānaṃ natthi ko ci pāṭibhogo samaṇo vā brāhmaṇo vā devo vā māro vā brahmā vā ko ci vā lokasminti.