Mother Mṅtu Sutta (SN 15:14–19)

- suttas - - evening talks - short morning talks - lectures - guided meditations - talk collections - other themes - chants - - - - à¹à¸à¸¢ - Franā§ais - Espaā±ol - - Portuguāªs - РÑÑÑкий - - - УкÑаÑнÑÑка Submit Search - Home - Suttas - SN - SN 15:14–19 Mother ## Browse Suttas Go to Saṃyutta Nikṅya index SN index ## Mother Mṅtu Sutta  (SN 15:14–19) Near Sṅvatthī. There the Blessed One said: "From an inconceivable beginning comes the wandering-on. A beginning point is not discernible, 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 inconceivable beginning comes the wandering-on. A beginning point is not discernible, 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." - --> - - - -