Mahāvacchagotta Sutta
The Paribbājaka Vacchagotta visits the Buddha at Veluvana
and asks him to expound right and wrong. The Buddha does so, and adds that those
who follow his teaching are sure of deliverance and of birth in happy worlds and
are destined for Nibbāna. Vacchagotta is very pleased and seeks admission to the
Order, but the Buddha says that he must first pass four months as a probationer.
At the end of that time he enters the Order and the Buddha further expounds the
Doctrine to him. Shortly after he becomes an Arahant. M.i.489 97.

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