དམ་པའ་ཆས་པད་མ་དཀར་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 3.4

3.4

“I was in the past attached to views.
I was an esteemed tīrthika mendicant.
Then the Lord, knowing my thoughts,
Taught me nirvāṇa¹⁷⁴ to free me from those views. {11}

“After I was liberated from all those views
I realized the emptiness of phenomena.
Therefore I believed I had attained nirvāṇa,¹⁷⁵
But this was not what is called nirvāṇa. {12}

“When one becomes a buddha, the highest being,
Humans, maruts, yakṣas, and rākṣasas come before you,
And you possess a body with the thirty-two signs.
That is when there is the attainment of nirvāṇa without remainder. {13}

“I have dispelled all my pride,
Heard your words, and today I have attained nirvāṇa.
You prophesied my supreme enlightenment
In front of the world and its devas. {14}

“When I first heard the words of the Guide
I experienced a powerful terror
That this might be the wicked Māra
Manifesting on this earth in the appearance of a buddha. {15}

“When you taught through a quintillion
Causes, reasons, and parables, establishing
Buddhahood’s highest enlightenment,
Hearing that I had no doubt in the Dharma, {16}

“At that time you taught how ten billion jinas
Of the past who had passed into nirvāṇa
Were established in skillful methods
And they also in that way taught the Dharma; {17}

“That many future buddhas who will be in the world,
And the present ones who have seen the ultimate truth,
Will be teaching and in that way are teaching
The Dharma through hundreds of skillful methods. {18}

“And you taught the nature of your own conduct,
Beginning with when you renounced your home,
And the way you realized the wheel of the Dharma,
And the way that you established the teaching of the Dharma. {19}

“And then I knew that you were not Māra,
But a lord of the world teaching correct conduct.
That is not found in the activity of the māras
And that had been the doubt in my mind. {20}

“When the gentle, profound, melodious
Speech of the Buddha filled me with joy,
All my uncertainties were dispelled
And in wisdom I remained free of doubt. {21}