Taṇhāvagga · Craving · Gāthā 338
Amataṁ vīta-taṇhassa, sabbadukkhappahāyino; Dhammaṁ desemi bhaddante, yathā visamadassino.
Amataṁ vīta-taṇhassa, sabbadukkhappahāyino; dhammaṁ desemi bhaddante, yathā visamadassino.
Immortality belongs to one whose thirst is exhausted, who has abandoned all suffering. I teach the Dhamma, blessed one, as one who sees the uneven.
Amataṁ — immortality, the deathless. It is not a state after death, it is the quality of what cannot die because it was never truly born.
Visamadassino — one who sees the uneven. Life without thirst appears uneven, strange, because ordinarily there is always desire directing perception.