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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Teena@" data-source="post: 7429695" data-attributes="member: 266388"><img src="http://www.beyondthenet.net/buddha/gallery/Plate7a.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />                      [SIZE=-1]7. The First Discourse.      Having realized the Four Noble Truths - the Noble Truth of  Suffering; the Cause of       Suffering; the Cessation of Suffering; and the Path leading to the  Cessation of Suffering       - by himself, the Buddha now decides to teach them to the five  ascetics who had earlier       served him at Uruvela, in Buddhagaya. At the end of this First  Discourse, which is known       as the "Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta" and given to the five ascetics  who were now       living at Isipatana in Benares, the oldest of them, Kondanna  realises the first path and       fruition of the Stream-winner (Sotapanna), or one who goes against  the stream of Samsara       (the recurring cycle of life and death).[/SIZE]<img src="http://www.beyondthenet.net/buddha/gallery/Plate8a.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />                      [SIZE=-1]8. Go now and wander for the  welfare of the many.      The Buddha stays on at Isipatana for the rainy season. However,  before that, within the       first week of His giving of the Dhammacakkappavattna Sutta, all five  ascetics reach the       highest fruition of Sainthood and thus become the first five Arahant  disciples of the       Buddha. Before the rainy season is over fifty five others have  followed suit. The Buddha       now exports His sixty disciples: - 'Go forth ye bhikkhus, for the  welfare of the many, for       the happiness of the many, out of compassion for the world, for the  good, welfare and       happiness of gods and men'. Accordingly the disciples set forth to  spread the new       teaching.[/SIZE]</blockquote>

Verification: Nawa warak dahaya keeyada? (Namaya wadi kireema dahaya)

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