འཕགས་པ་རན་ཆན་དྲ་བ་ཅན་གྱས་ཞས་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 2

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he had come to possess the lamp that shines with the immense light of the Dharma way. One time, when he was around eight years old, he had a dream as he slept. In his dream, the god Santuṣita descended from the Heaven of Joy and spoke to him, encouraging Ratnajālin with this melodious song:

“The essential being, the Victor, the Buddha,
Abides, illuminating the entire trichiliocosm.
With vast accumulations of merit, he appears in golden hue.
The appearance of this great being is beautiful in all respects.

“He is endowed with the light of ten million suns
And shines like a thousand or even ten million
Luminous full moons—
As many as there are grains of sand in the Ganges.

“Shining like many millions of suns,
He shines like the supreme disk in the east,
Those in the south and the west,
And the supreme disk in the north.

“The light rays that stream forth
From each pore of this shining protector of the world
Will, each and every one,
Make all full moons appear gloomy.

“From each pore in the skin of those who are omniscient,
Light streams forth.
The light that shines from him illuminates as many worlds
As there are grains of sand in sixty-six Ganges rivers.”

In the morning, the Licchavi boy Ratnajālin told his father Limitless Strength, “Father, last night the god Santuṣita arrived from the Heaven of Joy and encouraged me with a melodious song. Father, I am telling you this so that we can begin the practice of worshiping the Thus-Gone One.”

At this point the Licchavi boy Ratnajālin sang these verses to his father Limitless Strength:

“The captain of all beings, the perfect Buddha,
The great being inconceivably learned in the ways of the world—
Please, may you worship this protector,