འཕགས་པ་ཆས་ཡང་དག་པར་སྡད་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 5.6

5.6

Whose purpose did the Thus-Gone One serve after he had reached perfect awakening?”

“Child of good family,” replied the venerable Śāriputra, “there is not a single phenomenon that the Thus-Gone One has not perfectly awakened to. Having perfectly awakened to all phenomena, he served the purposes of beings and acted in a conditioned manner.”

“If that is your understanding, why did you say that the thus-gone ones transcend the scope of the world?” asked the bodhisattva Nirārambha. “The elder Śāriputra does not understand this. Honorable Śāriputra, if you assert that the thus-gone ones have transcended the scope of the world, did the Thus-Gone One awaken, and upon awakening, whose purpose did he serve? What the elder Śāriputra said about this is exceedingly poor.”

In response to that statement, the venerable Śāriputra told the bodhisattva great being Nirārambha, “Child of good family, I am exceedingly inferior in this way in terms of the mind set on awakening and omniscient wisdom. Because I stubbornly remained at the level of a śrāvaka I have been inferior from the start. Child of good family, I rejoice in your confident eloquence. May all beings attain confident eloquence such as this!”

When this discussion was finished, eighty thousand bodhisattvas attained acceptance of the nonarising of phenomena. For six thousand gods, dust fell away from the Dharma eye that sees phenomena, and they became stainless and pure. Five thousand monks turned away from the perspective of a śrāvaka and generated the mind set upon unsurpassable, completely perfect awakening. The Blessed One then predicted their perfect awakening in their respective buddhafields.

The bodhisattva great being Nirārambha then asked the Blessed One,