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the third. The abandoning of dauṣṭhulya that is like that abiding in the core is the stage in which there are completely and utterly no latencies; I have fully explained it as the buddhabhūmi." "Bhagavān, through how many immeasurable kalpas are those dauṣṭhulyas abandoned?" "Avalokiteśvara, they are abandoned through three immeasurable kalpas, or through seasons, months, fortnights, nights, days, periods, half-periods, instants, moments, brief instants, and immeasurable kalpas." "Bhagavān, on those bhūmis, what is the lakṣaṇa of the arising of kleśas of bodhisattvas? What is their fault? What is to be understood as their quality?" "Avalokiteśvara, the arising of the kleśas of bodhisattvas has the lakṣaṇa of having no afflictive obscuration. Why is that? Because on the first bhūmi the bodhisattva has thoroughly and definitively realized the entire dharmadhātu; therefore, the bodhisattva's kleśas arise only with awareness, and not without awareness, and thus they have the lakṣaṇa of being non-afflicted. Because they are incapable of generating suffering in their own mental continuum, they are without fault. Because they are the cause for reversing the suffering of the realm of sentient beings, they possess immeasurable qualities." "Bhagavān, if currently even the arisings of kleśas in bodhisattvas outshine to such an extent the kuśalamūlas of all sentient beings, śrāvakas, and pratyekabuddhas, what need is there to speak of their other qualities? How marvelous is the great significance of bodhi! Bhagavān, when the Bhagavān stated that the Śrāvakayāna and the Mahāyāna are one single yāna, what was the intent