འཕགས་པ་ཀླའ་རྒྱལ་པ་མ་དྲས་པས་ཞས་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 31

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You must therefore stop meeting to indulge in games, frivolities, and displays of physical prowess. You must abandon your lustful frolics and your attachment to forms, sounds, smells, tastes, and tactile objects. Instead, you must aspire to worship the Thus-Gone One, and you must serve the Blessed One with constant mindfulness, alertness, and heedfulness. Why? Because the Blessed One is heedful, and so are those in his entourage; he is omniscient, and so are those in his entourage; he is at peace, and so are those in his entourage; and he is disciplined, and so are those in his entourage. Therefore, for half a month you must not enter your wives’ quarters; you must neither have nor entertain lustful thoughts; you must neither have nor entertain malicious thoughts; and you must neither have nor entertain harmful thoughts. Gods, nāgas, yakṣas, gandharvas, asuras, garuḍas, kinnaras, mahoragas, humans, and nonhumans will also come to listen to the Blessed One teach the Dharma. You must behave and comport yourselves in such a way as not to disrespect them, just as you would not disrespect me. If you worship the Blessed One in this way, his entourage will be delighted.”

Having instructed his family members in this way, the nāga king Anavatapta, so as to worship to the Blessed One, conjured a variety of shining vajras ornamented with blue beryl and Jambu River gold and spread across an area seven hundred leagues wide between the king of snow mountains and the great lake Anavatapta. In the same area, he conjured eighty-four thousand precious trees each adorned with all kinds of precious gems and replete with all kinds of flowers and fruits.