Yasa goes forth, and his father takes full refuge

Yasa, the son of a wealthy family of Bārāṇasī, wakes in the night and sees the sleeping women musicians and dancers sprawled in disarray, like a charnel ground (a burial ground where corpses are left). Filled with disgust, he leaves the house crying “Oh, what distress!”. The Buddha, walking slowly back and forth in the open, calls to him, “Here there is no distress”, and teaches him; Yasa attains the first fruit. Yasa's father comes after him; the Buddha first makes the son invisible to him, then teaches him; the father attains the first fruit and takes refuge in the Buddha, the Dhamma and the Sangha, becoming the first male lay disciple in the world to take full refuge in the Three Jewels (the Buddha, the Dhamma and the Sangha). Listening beside them, Yasa attains arahantship at the same time and then goes forth; there are now seven arahants in the world. Source text