འཕགས་པ་ཕ་རལ་ཏ་ཕྱན་པ་ལྔ་བསྟན་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 1.21

1.21

Any bodhisattva great beings who keep their focus on the state of omniscience are bodhisattvas who are close to awakening; soon they will awaken to unsurpassed and perfect buddhahood. Why is that? Because when bodhisattva great beings keep their focus on the state of omniscience, they are being skilled in means.

“Moreover, Venerable Pūrṇa, bodhisattva great beings should train in the perfection of generosity right from the start. Why is that? Because, Venerable Pūrṇa, they have been accustomed to miserliness since time without beginning in saṃsāra. When they practice generosity, they distance themselves from miserliness and instead approach the state of omniscience. The closer they come to the state of omniscience, the more they turn away from the levels of the hearers and the solitary buddhas. The more they turn away from the levels of the hearers and the solitary buddhas, the closer they will be to the state of omniscience.

“Venerable Pūrṇa, as an analogy, if you place a jar outside in the rain, it will gradually be filled as the raindrops fall. The very first raindrop does not fill the jar, nor does the very last. Rather, it is the raindrops that fall steadily from beginning to end that gradually fill the jar. Venerable Pūrṇa, likewise, bodhisattva great beings do not attain the state of omniscience as soon as they first arouse the mind of awakening, nor do they attain this state as they take their place at the seat of awakening. Rather, they do so by means of all the individual mind states that are directed toward the state of omniscience, beginning with their first arousal of the mind of awakening and continuing until they finally take their place at the seat of awakening. It is through the accumulation of all of those beneficial mind states