འཕགས་པ་མ་ཏག་བརྩགས་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་གཟངས 3

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should also be known to yield an immeasurable maturation. Siṃhavikrīḍita, whoever makes offerings—whether to the Tathāgata while he is remaining or even after he has passed completely into nirvāṇa—all of them will pass completely into nirvāṇa through one of the three vehicles: the vehicle of the Śrāvakas, the vehicle of the Pratyekabuddhas, or the Great Vehicle (Mahāyāna). Furthermore, Siṃhavikrīḍita, if someone sees the Tathāgata, the Arhat, the Perfectly Awakened Buddha, becomes clear-minded, and with a faithful mind honors, respects, worships, reveres, and serves him with gifts, robes, food, bedding, medicine for illness, provisions, and all comforts; and if someone else makes offerings to a stūpa containing a relic of the Tathāgata who has passed completely into nirvāṇa, even one as small as a mustard seed—the maturation of their merits should be known to be equal; there is no distinction or difference between them. Siṃhavikrīḍita, if a householder bodhisattva makes an offering of heaps of jewels the size of Mount Meru to Śrāvakas, Pratyekabuddhas, and the Tathāgatas, the Arhats, the Perfectly Awakened Buddhas, whereas a bodhisattva who has gone forth makes an offering of merely a single kārṣāpaṇa, and having offered it, fully dedicates it toward unexcelled, perfect awakening—that former root of virtue does not come close to a hundredth part of this latter root of virtue; it does not come close to a thousandth part, a hundred-thousandth part, a count, a fraction, a calculation, a comparison, or a cause; indeed, it cannot even bear an analogy. Siṃhavikrīḍita, if someone serves the Tathāgata, the Arhat, the Perfectly Awakened Buddha for one year, a hundred years, or even a thousand years with all comforts and requisites;