དམ་པའ་ཆས་པད་མ་དཀར་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 8.22

8.22

“Just as the extent of space
Can never be discovered
Throughout all the ten directions,
So will be this accumulation of merit. {52}

“And it goes without saying that it will be so
For those who also have patience, self-control,
Concentration, correct conduct, meditation,
And practice solitary contemplation. {53}

“Without anger, without slander,
They remain in veneration to the caitya,
Always bowing to the bhikṣus
Without pride and without laziness. {54}

“Endowed with wisdom and likewise⁴⁷⁰ stable,
They ask questions and do not become angry.
They have compassion for beings
And teach them in an appropriate manner. {55}

“For those who will be like that
And who possess this sūtra,
There will be an aggregation of merit
The extent of which can never be measured. {56}

“If someone were to see
Such dharmabhāṇakas
Who possess this sūtra
They will treat them with reverence. {57}

“They will scatter divine flowers upon them.
They will wrap them in divine cloth.
They will bow their heads to their feet,
And will perceive them to be a tathāgata. {58}

“Seeing them they will at that time think,
‘That one will go to the foot of a tree
And in order to benefit the world and its devas
Will attain the highest enlightenment of buddhahood.’ {59}

“Someone who recites one verse from this sūtra
Where those kinds of wise people walk,
Wherever they stand, or wherever they sit,
Or wherever those heroes makes their bed, {60}

“In those places there should be built
Various beautiful stūpas of the highest being,
For the Guide, the Buddha, the Bhagavān,
And a variety of offerings should be made to it. {61}

“I also will have enjoyed that place
Where those bodhisattvas⁴⁷¹ resided.
I myself will have walked there,
And I myself will have sat there.” {62}

Chapter 17

Teaching the Merit of Rejoicing

Then the bodhisattva mahāsattva Maitreya asked the Bhagavān,