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Lesson 3.2.1 Yamakavaggo - Sārañca sārato ñatvā – Perceiving the Essential
After the Venerable Sāriputta and the Venerable Mahā Moggallāna had taken a firm footing in the teaching of the Enlightened One, they proposed to Sañjaya, their previous teacher, to join them in their first visit to the Buddha. Sañjaya refused and claimed that as a spiritual teacher it would not behove him, while leading a large followership, to turn into an ‘apprentice’ again. The Buddha then explained to his two chief disciples that those who mistake the truth as untrue and consider untruth as the essential will never acquire the gist of liberation. In reference to this he utters the verses that constitute this lesson along with the historical background.