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be understood as sixfold: having great wealth; attaining a good rebirth; being without enmity, free of dissension, having abundant happiness and mental pleasure; becoming a master of sentient beings; being without physical harm; and being renowned for great power.' 'Bhagavān, what is the mixture with defiled phenomena in those pāramitās?' 'Avalokiteśvara, that is to be understood through four kinds of engagement: engagement lacking compassion, improper engagement, engagement lacking constancy, and engagement lacking respect. In that regard, improper engagement is when one's cultivation of other pāramitās is impaired by [other] pāramitās.' 'Bhagavān, what is an improper method?' 'Avalokiteśvara, when a bodhisattva benefits sentient beings through those pāramitās, if they are content merely with providing material assistance and do not lift them out of unwholesome states and establish them in wholesome states, that is an improper method. Why is that? Avalokiteśvara, it is because sentient beings are not truly benefited by merely that much. It is just like, for example, filth: whether it is large or small, there is no way it can be made fragrant. In the same way, sentient beings who are afflicted by the intrinsic nature of the suffering of conditioned existence (saṃskāra-duḥkhatā) cannot be made happy merely by the manner of providing material assistance; rather, establishing them in wholesome states is the supreme way of benefiting them.' 'Bhagavān, how many purities of those pāramitās are there?' 'Avalokiteśvara, I do not say that there are purities of the pāramitās other than those five aspects; however, based on those very ones, I will explain