[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Buddhist Sanskrit literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit) › [Mahāyāna sūtras](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra) › [Saṃdhinirmocanasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.samdhinirmocana) › [འཕགས་པ་དགོངས་པ་ངེས་པར་འགྲེལ་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.samdhinirmocana*bo) › [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.samdhinirmocana*bo~en-mt) › 28 # འཕགས་པ་དགངས་པ་ངས་པར་འགྲལ་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 28 English (machine translation) 28 - **Language:** English ### [28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.samdhinirmocana*bo~en-mt.28) beings are deluded. When it comes into contact with yellow color, it appears as gold, and by apprehending it mistakenly as gold, sentient beings are deluded. "Guṇākara, it is like this: for example, just as the very clear crystal comes into contact with colors, so should the latencies of conventional discourse of the imagined characteristic on the dependent characteristic be regarded. "It is like this: for example, just as apprehending the very clear crystal mistakenly as an indranīla jewel, a mahānīla, a ruby, an emerald, or gold, so should the apprehension of the dependent characteristic as the imagined characteristic be regarded. "Guṇākara, it is like this: for example, just as that very clear crystal itself, so should the dependent characteristic be regarded. "It is like this: for example, just as the very clear crystal is at all times and for all eternity unestablished as having the characteristic of an indranīla, a mahānīla, a ruby, an emerald, or gold, and lacks intrinsic nature in that respect, so too, because the dependent characteristic is at all times and for all eternity unestablished as having that imagined characteristic and lacks intrinsic nature in that respect, should the thoroughly established characteristic be regarded. "Guṇākara, therein, by relying on names associated with signs, the imagined characteristic is fully known. By relying on adherence to the dependent characteristic as being the imagined characteristic, the dependent characteristic is fully known. By relying on the absence of adherence to the dependent characteristic as being the imagined characteristic, the thoroughly established characteristic is fully known. "Guṇākara, therein, when a bodhisattva fully knows the imagined characteristic of dharmas in the dependent characteristic as it truly is, - [Previous: 27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.samdhinirmocana*bo~en-mt.27) - [Next: 29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.samdhinirmocana*bo~en-mt.29) ## Translations (1) - [Unraveling the Intent](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.samdhinirmocana*bo~en-84000.28) — Gregory Forgues, English ## Linked texts (1) - [འཕགས་པ་དགོངས་པ་ངེས་པར་འགྲེལ་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.samdhinirmocana*bo.28) — Classical Tibetan --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.samdhinirmocana*bo~en-mt.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.samdhinirmocana*bo~en-mt.28) · Pramāṇa