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He performed this miracle so as to awaken the bodhisattva mahāsattvas in all those buddha realms, to reveal the activity of the compassionate bodhisattva’s prayer, so that bodhisattva mahāsattvas would come from those buddha realms as numerous as the particles in a buddha realm, and so that the bodhisattva mahāsattvas would be given the Dharma discourse on the fearless conduct that reveals the entrance to samādhi.’

“Noble son, those two bodhisattva mahāsattvas, Svaviṣaya­saṃkopita­viṣaya and Dhāraṇī­saṃpraharṣaṇa­vikopita, asked the Tathāgata Prasphulitakusuma­vairocana, ‘Bhadanta Bhagavat, this bodhisattva mahāsattva, who has great compassion, who has chosen a world with the five degeneracies in the time of the kaliyuga in which kleśas and conflicts are strong, and who has chosen as his disciples those whose minds are burning, who have committed the bad actions with immediate results at death, and so on, up to and including those who possess bad roots, how long has it been since he developed the aspiration for enlightenment? How long has he been practicing the conduct of enlightenment?’

“ ‘Noble sons,’ said the Tathāgata Prasphulitakusuma­vairocana, ‘that bodhisattva mahāsattva who has great compassion has now, for the first time, developed the aspiration for the highest, most complete enlightenment. Noble sons,