འཕགས་པ་ཆས་ཡང་དག་པར་སྡད་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 3.29

3.29

I then progress from there toward nirvāṇa.
Embodying great compassion,
I am entirely free of blame.

“An intelligent bodhisattva
Who desires a perfect discourse on phenomena,
And who seeks a discourse on the Dharma,
Will follow this Dharma discourse.”

When this great being finished his versified explanation, thirty-two thousand bodhisattvas attained acceptance of the nonarising of phenomena. For eight thousand gods, dust fell away from their Dharma eye that sees phenomena, and they became stainless and pure.

Then the bodhisattva great being Nirārambha addressed the bodhisattva great being Mativikrama: “Child of good family, a bodhisattva should privilege the truth. Child of good family, a bodhisattva’s discourse on the Dharma is a discourse on the truth.¹⁰⁴ Child of good family, what is this truth that compels a bodhisattva who has generated the mind set on unsurpassable, completely perfect awakening to not forsake that mind even at the cost of their life and to not act adversely toward beings? It is the truth of a bodhisattva. It would be a despicable lie to say that a bodhisattva would generate the mind set on unsurpassable, completely perfect awakening only to forsake it later and act adversely toward beings.”¹⁰⁵

Mativikrama asked, “Once they have generated the mind set on unsurpassable, completely perfect awakening, why will they not later forsake it and not act adversely toward any being?”

Nirārambha replied, “When bodhisattvas understand the truth of suffering, when they understand the truth of its origin, the truth of its cessation, and the truth of the path, they will not forsake that mind and will not act adversely toward any being.”