And deeply moved, he said to Assaji:
“If the teaching were nothing else but this you have at any rate overpassed suffering. That which many ages have not seen is revealed to us now.”
And leaving Assaji, who pursued his way in peace, Sariputta hastened with winged feet to his friend and fellow-student Moggalana, and Moggalana seeing him cried out.
“Your eyes are shining. Your colour is pure and clear. Have you then found deliverance from death?”
“I have found it. I have found it.”
And standing there breathless he told him of Assaji and his words, and on the great mind of Moggalana, strong in clear perception, flashed also the truth of the nonentity of the greedy I, and unable to delay, panting for the truth, they left the ascetic who taught them, and hurried to the wood where the Perfect One taught sitting among his disciples, and when he saw the two young Brahmans approach full of eagerness and awe, he said to those about him. “Welcome these two, for they shall be my greatest—the one unsurpassed for wisdom, the other for supernormal power.”
And he himself welcomed them with joy, seeing that they would stand about him as bright stars about the moon.
So when they had told him their case and heard his words, he said:
“Come, monks, the Doctrine is well taught! Lead henceforward the pure life for the extinction of suffering,” and thus received them to be his own.
And shortly after this he founded the Sangha, the Brotherhood formally, and drew up the first code for its governance.