To Mahṅnṅma (1) Mahṅnṅma Sutta (SN 55:21)

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('â', If I were to die at this moment, what would be my destination? What would be my future course?" "Have no fear, Mahṅnṅma. Have no fear. Your death will not be a bad one, your demise will not be bad. If oneâs mind has long been nurtured with conviction, nurtured with virtue, nurtured with learning, nurtured with relinquishment, nurtured with discernment, then when the body—endowed with form, composed of the four primary elements, born from mother & father, nourished with rice & porridge, subject to inconstancy, rubbing, pressing, dissolution, & dispersion—is eaten by crows, vultures, hawks, dogs, hyenas, or all sorts of creatures, nevertheless the mind—long nurtured with conviction, nurtured with virtue, learning, relinquishment, & discernment—rises upward and separates out. "Suppose a man were to throw a jar of ghee or a jar of oil into a deep lake of water, where it would break. There the shards & jar-fragments would go down, while the ghee or oil would rise upward and separate out. In the same way, if oneâs mind has long been nurtured with conviction, nurtured with virtue, nurtured with learning, nurtured with relinquishment, nurtured with discernment, then when the body⦠is eaten by crows, vultures, hawks, dogs, hyenas, or all sorts of creatures, nevertheless the mind⦠rises upward and separates out. "Have no fear, Mahṅnṅma. Have no fear. Your death will not be a bad one, your demise will not be bad." See also: SN 22:88 - --> - - - -