{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an3.52/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an3.52","id":"suttacentral_an3.52","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an3.52/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, bowed, sat down to one side, and said to him: \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 burning with 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. When your house is on fire, you rescue the pot that\u2019s useful, not the one that\u2019s burnt. And as the world is on fire with old age and death, you should rescue by giving, for what\u2019s given is rescued. 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 (2nd)","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":215}