འཕགས་པ་རན་ཆན་དྲ་བ་ཅན་གྱས་ཞས་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 15

15

Do not harbor any doubt
About the unsurpassed wisdom of the buddhas.

“Once you have heard this discourse,
Perform respectful veneration
With flowers, incense, streamers,
Parasols, and powders!”

Then, with his soft and supple hands,
The Thus-Gone One
Repeatedly caressed
The Licchavi boy’s head.

After this, the gods
Made a loud cry
And scattered pleasing divine flowers,
Filling the realm.

The gods, having remained in the sky,
Then sang countless songs.
Millions of brahmā gods
Cast down a rain of red sandalwood powder.

When Ratnajālin heard this discourse
Spoken by the Thus-Gone One,
He was pleased and delighted,
And spoke these words to the Thus-Gone One:

“In the future,
I will become a monk
And fearlessly preach this discourse
In towns and villages.

“I will act according to the Buddha’s teaching,
Which the perfect Buddha has spoken so gloriously.
Traveling millions of leagues
I will preach the way.

“I will serve all the gods, nāgas,
And kinnaras,
And other non-human beings,
Satisfying them with the gift of Dharma.”

When this unsurpassed discourse
Was taught by the Buddha,
The assembly of asuras celebrated
And scattered countless flowers.

A single hair of the Dharma King,
The Lion of the Śākyas,
Who is the supreme being in all buddha realms,
Illuminated all the realms.

Then, the tongue of the Teacher,
The great being, the essential being,
Emerged and covered millions of realms
As numerous as the grains of sand in the Ganges.

As the Thus-Gone One covered millions of realms
Throughout the ten directions of the universe,
The youth Ratnajālin,
As well as other heroes and Licchavis

Numbering six hundred million,
Arrived saying, “Please teach us!”
The Teacher then introduced