Buddha: His Life, his Doctrine, his Order c8.t1.11

c8.t1.11

And when the mendicant Sâriputta heard this statement of the doctrine, he obtained the clear, undimmed vision of the truth, and he perceived: "Whatever is subject to the law of beginning, all that is also subject to the law of decay." (And he said to Assaji :) "If the doctrine be nothing else but this, thou hast at any rate attained the condition in which there is no suffering. That which hath not been seen by many myriads of bygone ages, hath in these days come near unto us."