འཕགས་པ་ཆས་ཐམས་ཅད་ཀྱ་རང་བཞན་མཉམ་པ་ཉད་རྣམ་པར་སྤྲས་པ་ཏང་ང་འཛན་གྱ་རྒྱལ་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 1.21

1.21

Wishing to become a self-arisen jina, a lord of Dharma,
Will have merit that will be vastly greater
Through remembering one verse of this meditation.²³⁰ {16}

“The merit from possessing this samādhi is most vast.
One would not be able to conclude reciting
The description of its benefits even in as many eons
As there are grains of sand in the Ganges.²³¹ {17}

“Therefore, having listened to
The excellent benefits of the buddhas,
You should quickly be one who has the transmission²³²
Of this samādhi praised by the Buddha. {18}

“In my past lives I have honored
Seven hundred and thirty million buddhas.
All of those buddhas
Promulgated this sūtra. {19}

“The name of this sūtra
Is Entering Great Compassion. ²³³
Buddha qualities will not be hard to attain
For the learned one who trains in it. {20}

“When the World’s Guide is in nirvāṇa,
In that future time there will be
Many undisciplined bhikṣus
Who have no interest in becoming learned. {21}

“They will utter praises of correct conduct
But will have no interest in correct conduct.
They will utter praises of samādhi
But will have no interest in samādhi. {22}

“They will utter praises of wisdom
But will have no interest in wisdom.
They will utter praises of liberation
But will have no interest in liberation. {23}

“It is like when someone
Speaks of the qualities of sandalwood,
Saying, ‘Sandalwood is like this,
It makes a pleasing incense.’²³⁴ {24}

“Then another person asks
That man this question:
‘Do you have some of the sandalwood
That you have been praising?’²³⁵ {25}

“The man answers him,
‘I speak the praises of that incense
And in that way make my living,
But I have never seen that incense.’²³⁶ {26}

“In such a way, in future times
There will be those who have no correct conduct,²³⁷
Yet they who do not engage in it
Will make their living by praising it. {27}

“In that way, in future times
There will be those who have no samādhi,²³⁸
Yet they who do not engage in it
Will make their living by praising it. {28}

“In that way, in future times
There will be those who have no wisdom,²³⁹
Yet they who do not engage in it
Will make their living by praising it.²⁴⁰ {29}