དམ་པའ་ཆས་པད་མ་དཀར་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 2.3

2.3

At that time, the Bhagavān then taught that topic in detail by speaking these verses:

“There have been countless great heroes
In the world with its maruts and humans,
But all those beings were unable to know
Those guides in their entirety. {1}

“No one is able to know
The nature of their strengths,
Liberations, fearlessnesses,
Or the nature of the buddhas’ other dharmas. {2}

“In the past their practice
In the presence of millions of buddhas
Was profound and subtle,
Difficult to know and difficult to see. {3}

“They practiced bodhisattva conduct
For countless millions of eons.
And I have perfectly seen
At the Bodhimaṇḍa its result. {4}

“Like the guides in other worlds
I have the knowledge of it
In exactly the way that it is
And its exact characteristics. {5}

“It cannot be taught.
Its description cannot be known,
Except by bodhisattvas
Who maintain aspiration for it; {6}

“There are no other beings
Present in the worlds
To whom this Dharma is taught
And who know this teaching. {7}

“The wisdom of the jinas is beyond the scope
Even of the śrāvakas following the knower of the world,
Who have served him well and been praised by the Sugata,
Whose defilements have ceased and who are in their last bodies. {8}

“If all of those worlds were filled
With beings who were the same as Śāriputra
And they all in unison contemplated it
They would still not understand the wisdom of the sugatas. {9}

“Even if those who were as wise as you
Were to fill all the ten directions,
And if all ten directions were also filled in that same way
By those who are my other śrāvakas, {10}

“And if they all today in unison
Were to contemplate the Sugata’s wisdom,
Even all of them together would still not know
The extent of my limitless buddha wisdom. {11}