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 1.22

1.22

“In that way, in future times
There will be those who have no liberation,²⁴¹
Yet they who do not engage in it
Will make their living by praising it. {30}

“When a certain poor person,
Despised by the populace,
Later finds a treasure
And becomes rich, he is respected by the people. {31}

“In that same way, not having attained the samādhi,
A bodhisattva is not esteemed
By gods²⁴² or humans, kumbhāṇḍas or rākṣasas,
Just like the poor person who has no wealth.²⁴³ {32}

“Yet when the wise one attains the level
Of the unfathomable²⁴⁴ Dharma treasure,²⁴⁵
Gods and humans will be attracted to him,
And he will give those beings the supreme wealth. {33}

“Therefore, having heard the Jina’s description
Of the perfect attainment of those benefits,
Forsake all happiness gained through reputation
And hold the transmission of this supreme peace of samādhi. {34}

“The buddhas in all directions who have passed away,
And those of the future, and those who are present,
All attain unequaled, inconceivable enlightenment
Through having trained in this samādhi.” {35}

The youth Candraprabha was overjoyed,
And in the presence of the Buddha he said these words:
“When the best of beings has passed into nirvāṇa,
I will uphold this sūtra in that very difficult time.²⁴⁶ {36}

“I will give up my body and my life
And whatever happiness²⁴⁷ there is in the world;
In that time of great terrors
I will hold this samādhi of supreme peace. {37}

“I will have compassion for many beings.
I will see beings suffering without a protector.
I will be endowed with love for them
And will uphold this supreme peace, this samādhi.” {38}

At that time, no less than five hundred people
Became holders of the samādhi.
The youth was their leader²⁴⁸
In this vast holding of the supreme sūtra. {39}

Chapter 4

Samādhi

Then the youth Candraprabha