3.
The Discourse on the Gotamaka Shrine
126.
On one occasion the Blessed One was dwelling at Vesālī in the Gotamaka shrine.
There the Blessed One addressed the monks thus:
"Monks."
"Venerable sir," those monks assented to the Blessed One.
The Blessed One said this:
"I expound the Teaching having directly known, monks, not without having directly known. I expound the Teaching with a source, monks, not without a source. I expound the Teaching with the wondrous effect of liberation, monks, not without the wondrous effect of liberation. Since I expound the Teaching having directly known, monks, not without having directly known, since I expound the Teaching with a source, not without a source, since I expound the Teaching with the wondrous effect of liberation, not without the wondrous effect of liberation, exhortation is to be done, instruction is to be done. And it is enough for you, monks, for contentment, enough for gladness, enough for pleasure - 'The Blessed One is the Perfectly Enlightened One, well proclaimed is the Teaching, the Community is practicing well.'"
This is what the Blessed One said. Those monks, delighted, rejoiced in what the Blessed One had said. And while this explanation was being spoken, the thousandfold world-system trembled. The third.