Thus I heard:
On one occasion the venerable Nandaka was living at Savatthi in the
Eastern Monastery, Migara's Mother's Palace. Then Migara's grandson,
Salha, and Pekhuniya's grandson, Rohana, went to the venerable Nandaka, and
after salutation they sat down at one side. When they had done so the
venerable Nandaka said to Migara's grandson Salha:
"Come, Salha, do not be satisfied with hearsay or with tradition or
with legendary lore or with what has come down in scriptures or with
conjecture or with logical inference or with weighing evidence or with a
liking for a view after pondering it or with someone else's ability or
with the thought 'The monk is our teacher.' When you know in yourself
'These things are unprofitable, liable to censure, condemned by the wise,
being adopted and put into effect, they lead to harm and suffering,'
then you should abandon them." [Full Text]
Salha Sutta from the Anguttara Nikaya III.66
Translated from the Pali by Ñanamoli Thera
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