{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an3.51/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an3.51","id":"suttacentral_an3.51","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an3.51/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"Then two old brahmins\u2014elderly and senior, who were advanced in years and had reached the final stage of life, a hundred and twenty years old\u2014went up to the Buddha, and exchanged greetings with him. When the greetings and polite conversation were over, they sat down to one side, and said to the Buddha: \u201cWe brahmins, worthy Gotama, are old, elderly and senior, we\u2019re advanced in years and have reached the final stage of life; we\u2019re a hundred and twenty years old. And we haven\u2019t done what is good and skillful, nor have we made a shelter from fear. Advise us, worthy Gotama, instruct us! It will be for our lasting welfare and happiness.\u201d \u201cIndeed, brahmins, you\u2019re old, elderly and senior. And you haven\u2019t done what is good and skillful, nor have you made a shelter from fear. This world is led onward by old age, sickness, and death. But restraint here by way of body, speech, and mind is the shelter, asylum, island, refuge, and final haven for the departed. This life, so very short, is led onward. One led on to old age has no shelter. Seeing this peril in death, do good deeds that bring you joy. The restraint practiced here\u2014 of body, speech, and mind\u2014 leads the departed to happiness, as the good deeds done while living.\u201d","title":"Two Brahmins (1st)","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":220}