[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) › 58 # འཕགས་པ་དགངས་པ་ངས་པར་འགྲལ་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 58 English (machine translation) 58 - **Language:** English ### [58](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.samdhinirmocana*bo~en-mt.58) whether an exclusively focused path or a conjoined path, when the mind engages of its own accord in the absence of affliction by the secondary afflictions of both, that spontaneous manaskāra is called the mark of equanimity. "Bhagavān, when a bodhisattva cultivating śamatha and vipaśyanā correctly comprehends dharmas and correctly comprehends meaning, how does he correctly comprehend dharmas, and how does he correctly comprehend meaning?" "Maitreya, he correctly comprehends them through five aspects: through names, phrases, letters, the distinct, and the collected. What is a name? It is the designation given to afflicted and purified dharmas as their intrinsic essence and particular quality. What is a phrase? It is that which is supported by a collection of those very names, as locus and foundation, in order to express the meaning of the afflicted and purified. What is a letter? It is the phoneme that serves as the locus for both of them. What is the correct comprehension from among these distinctly? It is the correct comprehension by means of manaskāra focused on asambhinnadharmas. What is the correct comprehension from among them collectively? It is the correct comprehension by means of manaskāra focused on sambhinnadharmas. If all these are gathered together as one, it is called the correct comprehension of dharmas; thus does one correctly comprehend dharmas. A bodhisattva correctly comprehends meaning through ten aspects: through quantitative existence, qualitative existence, the meaning of subject, the meaning of object, the meaning of locus, the meaning of enjoyment, the meaning of distortion, the meaning of non-distortion, the meaning of affliction, and the meaning of purification. Maitreya, regarding that, the afflicted and purified - [Previous: 57](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.samdhinirmocana*bo~en-mt.57) - [Next: 59](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.samdhinirmocana*bo~en-mt.59) ## Translations (1) - [Unraveling the Intent](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.samdhinirmocana*bo~en-84000.58) — 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.58) — Classical Tibetan --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.samdhinirmocana*bo~en-mt.58](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.samdhinirmocana*bo~en-mt.58) · Pramāṇa