འཕགས་པ་དགངས་པ་ངས་པར་འགྲལ་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 35

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nature. In whatever way they cling, by that cause and that condition of clinging to the dependent nature as the imaginary nature, they thoroughly produce the dependent nature in the future. Because of that, they become thoroughly defiled by the defilement of kleśas, and they also become thoroughly defiled by the defilement of karma and the defilement of birth, so that for a long time they run and wander among hell beings, or among animals, or among pretas, or among devas, or among asuras, or among humans, for they do not transcend saṃsāra. Thereupon, Paramārthasamudgata, to those sentient beings who from the very beginning have not generated kuśalamūlas, whose obscurations are not thoroughly purified, whose continuums are not thoroughly matured, whose aspirations are not abundant, and who have not completely gathered the accumulations of merit and jñāna, I teach the Dharma beginning with the productionlessness of character. Having heard that Dharma, they understand conditioned saṃskāras to be impermanent, they understand them to be unstable, untrustworthy, and changeable by nature, and they become repulsed by and averse to all saṃskāras. Having become repulsed and averse, they turn away from evil: they do not do what is evil and rely upon what is virtuous. By the cause of relying upon virtue, those who have not generated kuśalamūlas generate them; they also thoroughly purify obscurations not thoroughly purified; and they also thoroughly mature continuums that are not thoroughly matured. Because of that, their aspirations become abundant and their accumulations of merit and jñāna become fully accomplished. Although in that way they have generated kuśalamūlas up to fully accomplishing the accumulations of merit and jñāna, nevertheless, regarding that productionlessness of character,