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#### Saṁyutta Nikāya
I. Sagātha Vagga
1. Devatā-Saṁyutta
VI. Jarā Vagga

#### Sutta 59

#### Dutiya Sutta

# Companion

Translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.

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[59.1][pts][bodh]

"What is a person's companion?
What is it that instructs him?
Taking delight
in what
does a mortal
gain release
from all suffering and stress?"

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"Conviction is a person's companion.
Discernment is what instructs him.
Taking delight
in unbinding,
a mortal
gains release
from all suffering and stress."

Of Related Interest:

SN 1:36;
AN 6:78;
Dhp 31;
Dhp 79;
Dhp 88–89;
Dhp 181;
Dhp 187

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