{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/sam/sn48-41.htm","path":"bud/sam/sn48-41.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/sam/sn48-41.htm","text":"Main index\nBuddhism index\nindex\nSamyutta Nikaya XLVIII.41\nJara Sutta\nOld Age\nFor free distribution only, as a gift of Dhamma\nContext of this sutta\nI have heard that on one occasion the Blessed One was staying near Savatthi in the Eastern Monastery, the palace of Migara's mother. Now on that occasion the Blessed One, on emerging from seclusion in the late afternoon, sat warming his back in the western sun. Then Ven. Ananda went to the Blessed One and, on arrival, having bowed down to the Blessed One, massaged the Blessed One's limbs with his hand and said, \"It's amazing, lord. It's astounding, how the Blessed One's complexion is no longer so clear & bright; his limbs are flabby & wrinkled; his back, bent forward; there's a discernible change in his faculties -- the faculty of the eye, the faculty of the ear, the faculty of the nose, the faculty of the tongue, the faculty of the body.\"\n\"That's the way it is, Ananda. When young, one is subject to aging; when healthy, subject to illness; when alive, subject to death. The complexion is no longer so clear & bright; the limbs are flabby & wrinkled; the back, bent forward; there's a discernible change in the faculties -- the faculty of the eye, the faculty of the ear, the faculty of the nose, the faculty of the tongue, the faculty of the body.\"\nThat is what the Blessed One said. Having said that, the One Well-gone, the Teacher, said further:\nI spit on you, old age -- \nold age that makes for ugliness.\nThe bodily image, so charming,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 is trampled by old age.\nEven those who live to a hundred\nare headed -- all -- to an end in death,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 which spares no one,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 which tramples all.\nRelated reading:\nRevised: Sat 17 October 1998","title":"SN XLVIII.41 Jara Sutta","type":"page"}