དམ་པའ་ཆས་པད་མ་དཀར་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 9.4

9.4

{8}

“They will hear sweet, melodious song,
But the constant ones will have no attachment.
They will hear the millions of voices of humans,
Whatever⁴⁷⁹ they say and wherever they say it. {9}

“They will continually hear the voices of the devas
And their sweet and melodious songs.⁴⁸⁰
They will hear the voices of men and women,
And also the voices of boys and girls. {10}

“They will hear where they are the beautiful songs
Of cuckoos, peacocks, and avadavats,
Partridges and other birds
Living in the mountains or in caves. {11}

“They will hear the dreadful cries
Of beings who are suffering in the hells
And the sounds that are made by pretas
Tormented by the suffering of no food. {12}

“They will hear the voices of the asuras,
Those who dwell in the ocean, and others.
Those dharmabhāṇakas, while staying where they are,
Will hear all those sounds without being overwhelmed. {13}

“While staying where they are they will hear
The multitude of different sounds
That those born as animals make
When they communicate with each other. {14}

“They will hear, without exception,
All that is said between the devas
In the realm of Brahmā,
In Akaniṣṭha, and Ābhāsvara. {15}

“They will continually hear the voices
Of those bhikṣus who are mendicants in the Sugata’s teaching
And are performing their daily recitation,
And those who are teaching the Dharma to assemblies. {16}

“They will hear separately all the voices
Of bodhisattvas in this world realm
Doing daily recitations or speaking with each other,
And whatever it is they say about the Dharma. {17}

“The bodhisattvas who possess this sūtra
Will also hear at the very same time
A buddha bhagavān, a trainer and leader of beings,
Teaching the highest Dharma to his assembly. {18}

“The multitude of sounds that beings emit
Throughout all these thousand million worlds,