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- Samyutta Nikaya XV.14-19
- Mata Sutta
- Mother
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At Savatthi. There the Blessed One said: "From an
inconstruable beginning comes transmigration. A beginning point is not evident, though
beings hindered by ignorance and fettered by craving are transmigrating & wandering
on. A being who has not been your mother at one time in the past is not easy to find...A
being who has not been your father...your brother...your sister...your son...your daughter
at one time in the past is not easy to find.
"Why is that? From an inconstruable beginning comes transmigration. A beginning
point is not evident, though beings hindered by ignorance and fettered by craving are
transmigrating & wandering on. Long have you thus experienced stress, experienced
pain, experienced loss, swelling the cemeteries -- enough to become disenchanted with all
fabricated things, enough to become dispassionate, enough to be released."