The Discourse about the Great Emancipation

The Fourth Chapter for Recitation
is the Discipline, this is the Teacher's Dispensation.”’ Those monks'
speech, monks, is not to be rejoiced over, not to be scorned at.
Without having rejoiced over it, without having scorned it, after
learning those words and syllables well, they should be laid
alongside the Discourses, they should be compared with the
Discipline.
If, when these are laid alongside the Discourses, compared with the
Discipline, they do not fit in with the Discourses, they do not
compare (well) with the Discipline, you may here come to this
conclusion: ‘Certainly this is not the Gracious One's word, it is not
well learned by those elders,’ and, monks, you should abandon it. If
when these are laid alongside the Discourses, compared with the
Discipline they do fit in with the Discourses, they do compare
(well) with the Discipline, you may here come to this conclusion:
‘Certainly this is the Gracious One's word, it is well-learned by
those elders.’ This, monks, is the third Great Referral you should
bear in mind.
4) Here, monks, a monk might speak like this: ‘In a certain dwelling
place lives one elder, very learned, who has learned the traditions,
a bearer of the Teaching, a bearer of the Discipline, a bearer of the
Tabulation, I have heard this directly from that elder, directly I
learned it: “This is the Teaching, this is the Discipline, this is the
Teacher's Dispensation.”’ That monk's speech, monks, is not to be
rejoiced over, not to be scorned at. Without having rejoiced over
it, without having scorned it, after learning those words and
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