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 13.18

13.18

“They should meditate on the strength of patience, rely on patience, and promulgate patience. They should be dedicated to the Dharma, long for the Dharma, possess the Dharma, engage in the Dharma in a way that accords with the Dharma, and apply themselves to making offerings to the buddhas.

“They should apply themselves to three points. What are the three points? They are ending the kleśas, mastering merit,¹³³⁰ and generating the roots of goodness out of longing for the wisdom of the buddhas and not out of desire for reaching worldly happiness. Apply yourself to those three points.”¹³³¹

Thereupon the Bhagavān, to explain what this meant, related an account of the past by chanting the following extensive verses to the youth Candraprabha:¹³³²

“Young man, listen to me as I tell you
How I practiced for thousands of eons.
Seeking this sublime, excellent samādhi,
I made offerings to hundreds of thousands of buddhas. {1}

“In that way, after countless eons had passed,
As numerous as the grains of sand in a hundred worlds,
When such a number had passed by
There appeared a jina named Gaṇeśvara. {2}

“There were no fewer than six hundred billion
In the saṅgha of that jina.
All were without ouflows, their kleśas had come to an end,
They had dhyāna, and were established in the eight liberations. {3}

“At that time the entire surface of this earth
Was pleasant and had good harvests, and no disorder.
All the people were joyful and happy,
And the happiness of humanity was widespread. {4}

“Everyone possessed the strength of merit.
They were attractive and beloved.
All were rich and possessed much wealth,
And physically they experienced divine pleasures. {5}

“They were gentle, with good discipline and few kleśas.
They enjoyed¹³³³ the strength of patience and had good features.
They were like devas within the paradises.
They possessed the qualities of correct conduct and understanding. {6}

“At that time there was a sovereign,