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thag.2.1 Theragatha

Uttara (1st)

No life is permanent,
and no conditions last forever.
The aggregates are reborn
and pass away, again and again.
Knowing this danger,
I don’t need another life.
I’ve escaped all sensual pleasures,
and attained the ending of defilements.
That is how these verses were recited by the senior venerable Uttara.