Jarāmaraṇa

Jarāmaraṇa (Sanskrit, Faded) means “old age and death”. In the Buddhism, the definitions of jarā and maraṇa take a direction far away from the usual designs of decline and death.

The expression is employed in the conditioned Coproduction, of which it is “the last” bond, although not indicating an end in the process of causality. Jarāmaraṇa is conditioned by the birth, Jāti.

Jarā

The decline is the “coarse” demonstration of a fundamental characteristic of any phenomenon: impermanency, Anicca.

Like such, it can be worth like one of the three “divine messengers”, Devaduta. It is one of the messengers who allowed Gautama Bouddha to make the decision to leave the life with the palate to find a remedy for the suffering, Dukkha.

Maraṇa

Death is the dissolution of any phenomenon, which takes place unceasingly. It is connected with the one of the functions of the conscience, Viññāṇa-kicca.

One can also speak about death to indicate the extinction of the vital process in the case of the Arhat, which enters then in Parinirvana.

Māra is the personification of death.

References

Nyanatiloka, Vocabulary fade-French of the Buddhist terms , Adyar

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