འཕགས་པ་ཡལ་འཁར་སྐྱང་གས་ཞས་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 1.7
The Questions of Rāṣṭrapāla (1) 1.7
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1.7
“You are skilled in the bases of magical power and in excellent superknowledge,
Your sense faculties are trained in strengths and liberation,
And you have internalized the conduct for all sentient beings—
I pay homage to you, ocean of unequaled wisdom. {19}
“Bhagavān, supreme one among men,
You know the mindstreams of sentient beings very well,
What their conduct is, and how their karma arises.
You know by which methods they will be liberated. {20}
“And you eliminate desire and hatred, which have ignorance as their origin,³⁰
And which causes sentient beings go to the three lower realms.
You know the karma by which they may go to the higher realms—
The right and the wrong karma performed by living beings. {21}
“You know all the sugatas—
Those who were benefactors for the world in the past,
Those who are worshiped by gods and humans in the present,
And the future ones who will have perfected supreme virtues. {22}
“You know very well
The pure buddhafields and the excellent retinues
Of bodhisattvas and śrāvakas,
And the lifespans of all the great sages. {23}
“You know how the Dharma will remain after you have entered nirvāṇa,
How the Victorious One’s relics will be praised,
And how the Dharma treasure will be preserved.
All of this is known by you, the most excellent of men. {24}
“Homage to you, Victorious One, ocean of wisdom,
Who has always—through the three times³¹—realized the wisdom of one who has the ten strengths,
Who has no obscurations,
And who is not attached to any phenomenon. {25}
“There is no one equal to you, let alone anyone superior.
Your body is thoroughly adorned with the buddha marks,
Like the sky adorned with stars.
I pay homage to you, the supreme one among men, supreme sage. {26}
“Even your bodily form is unequaled and captivating,
Outshining beings, including the gods.
Brahmā, Śakra, and the Akaniṣṭha gods
Do not seem beautiful in your presence. {27}
“You are stainless like the golden mountain,
And the hair³² on your head, glossy and smooth, spirals clockwise.
The uṣṇīṣa on your head produced by your extensive merit
Shines vividly like Mount Meru, the king of mountains. {28}
“The beautiful hair tuft between your eyebrows
Radiates myriad light rays.
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