Preached to the Mönche assembled at Ukkācelā. Those who will listen to und trust in the wrong kind of recluse und Brahmane und who do not understand good und evil will come to grief, whereas those who hearken to teachers of the right kind will gain deliverance.
The theme is illustrated by various similes drawn from the picture of a herdsman driving cattle across a ford. M.i.225f.