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3. “He perfectly cognizes, as they are, the different, manifold inclinations of other sentient beings.⁹⁵

4. “He perfectly cognizes, as they are, the many, varied basic natures of the world.

5. “He perfectly cognizes, as they are, the higher and lower faculties of other sentient beings.

6. “He perfectly cognizes, as they are, the paths that reach everywhere.

7. “He perfectly cognizes, as it is, the condition of either defilement or purification in other sentient beings’⁹⁶ faculties, strengths, parts of awakening, meditations, liberations, samādhis, and attainments.

8. “He⁹⁷ remembers many previous lives, including their specific aspects, locations, and causes. He remembers one life; he remembers two, three, four, and even up to many hundreds of thousands of millions of crores of lives, and so forth.

9. “With his divine eye⁹⁸ that is pure and beyond that of humans he sees sentient beings as they are born, as they are born in good or bad destinations according to the good or bad deeds of their body, speech, and mind, and so forth.

10. “Through his wisdom he perfectly cognizes, as it is, the mind’s liberation without fluxes, which comes from the destruction of the fluxes.

“These, bhikṣus, are the ten strengths of the Tathāgata.

“Now, what are the four confidences of the Tathāgata?

1. “In this world, the Bhagavat acknowledges himself as the perfect, complete Buddha.⁹⁹ If in this world with its gods, māras, and brahmas,