འཕགས་པ་དགངས་པ་ངས་པར་འགྲལ་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 14

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Because of not having [these two bonds], one attains nirvāṇa and fully awakens to unexcelled, perfect bodhi. Therefore, one cannot say that the lakṣaṇa of saṃskāras and the lakṣaṇa of the ultimate are different. In that regard, those who say that the lakṣaṇa of saṃskāras and the lakṣaṇa of the ultimate are different should be known by you, through this reasoning, to have proceeded improperly and not to have proceeded properly. Furthermore, Viśuddhamati, if the lakṣaṇa of saṃskāras and the lakṣaṇa of the ultimate were not different, then just as the lakṣaṇa of saṃskāras is included in the lakṣaṇa of affliction, so too the lakṣaṇa of the ultimate would be included in the lakṣaṇa of affliction. Viśuddhamati, if the lakṣaṇa of saṃskāras and the lakṣaṇa of the ultimate were also different, then the lakṣaṇa of the ultimate would not be the universal lakṣaṇa of all lakṣaṇas of saṃskāras. Viśuddhamati, because the lakṣaṇa of the ultimate is not included in the lakṣaṇa of affliction, and the lakṣaṇa of the ultimate is the universal lakṣaṇa of all lakṣaṇas of saṃskāras, therefore it is neither proper to say that the lakṣaṇa of saṃskāras and the lakṣaṇa of the ultimate are not different, nor is it proper to say that the lakṣaṇa of the ultimate is different. In that regard, those who say that the lakṣaṇa of saṃskāras and the lakṣaṇa of the ultimate are not different, or who say that the lakṣaṇa of the ultimate is different, should be known by you, through this reasoning, to have proceeded improperly and not to have proceeded properly. Furthermore, Viśuddhamati, if the lakṣaṇa of saṃskāras and the lakṣaṇa of the ultimate were not