Pathama Jana Sutta

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5. Pathama Jana Sutta
First Discourse on Cause of Rebirth

Jara Vagga, Devata Samyutta
Sagatha Vagga Samyutta, Samyutta Nikaya, Suttanta Pitaka

SOURCE: "FIVE SAMYUTTAS FROM SAGATHAVAGGA SAMYUTTA"
Translated by U Tin U (Myaung), Yangon
Edited by the Editorial Committee, Burma (Myanmar) Tipitaka Association, 1998

Pathama Jana Sutta
First Discourse on Cause of Rebirth

55. (The deva said:)

      "What causes a being to come into existence?

      What in him constantly runs hither and thither? What undergoes the cycle of rebirths?

      What is the great danger to a being?"

(The Bhagava said:)

"Craving causes a being to come into existence.

His mind constantly runs hither and thither.

Beings undergo the cycle of rebirths.

Dukkha is a being's greatest danger."

End of the Pathama Jana Sutta.

the fifth in this vagga.