[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) › [Suvarṇaprabhāsottamasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.suvarnaprabhasa) › [འཕགས་པ་གསེར་འོད་དམ་པ་མདོ་སྡེའི་དབང་པོའི་རྒྱལ་པོ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.suvarnaprabhasa*bo-d556) › [The Sutra of the Sublime Golden Light (2)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.suvarnaprabhasa*bo-d556~en-84000) › 194 # འཕགས་པ་གསར་འད་དམ་པ་མད་སྡའ་དབང་པའ་རྒྱལ་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 194 The Sūtra of the Sublime Golden Light (2) 194 - **Language:** English ### [194](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.suvarnaprabhasa*bo-d556~en-84000.194) “ ‘ “You, Brahmā, the principal deity, The one who is the lord over all devas, We pray that you cut through our doubts And cut through our concerns. “ ‘ “Why is a king, who has been born In the human world, called a deva? For what reason is a king Given the title of ‘son of the devas’? “ ‘ “If he is a deva, then why is it that He is born into this world of humans, Becomes a lord of humans, And acts as a king for humans?” ⁴¹⁰ “ ‘The protectors of the world asked Those questions of the lord of Brahmās And that principal deity, Brahmā, Said these words to the protectors of the world: “ ‘ “The world protectors have thus Asked me such questions, So I will teach an excellent treatise In order to bring benefit to beings. “ ‘ “I will describe the births Of kings within human existences And the causes through which They become the kings of their domains. “ ‘ “Blessed by the lords of devas, He will enter the mother’s uterus. First, he is blessed by the devas, And afterward, he comes into the womb. “ ‘ “Although born in the human world, He becomes a lord of humans. As he is born from the devas, He is called ‘a son of the devas.’ “ ‘ “The deva lords of Trāyastriṃśa state, ‘You are the child of all the devas.’ They bestow upon him the right to be king And he emanates to become a lord of humans. “ ‘ “He brings to an end all evil acts And destroys that which is not Dharma. He establishes beings in good works In order to direct them to the paradises. “ ‘ “The lord of men, whether A human or a gandharva, A caṇḍāla or a rākṣasa, Prevents wickedness. “ ‘ “The lord of men is a father and mother For those who engage in good actions. He has been blessed by the kings of devas⁴¹¹ To teach them the ripening of results. “ ‘ “He has been blessed by the kings of devas⁴¹² In order to teach the ripened results Of the karma of performing good actions And performing bad actions in this life. - [Previous: 193](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.suvarnaprabhasa*bo-d556~en-84000.193) - [Next: 195](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.suvarnaprabhasa*bo-d556~en-84000.195) ## Linked texts (1) - [འཕགས་པ་གསེར་འོད་དམ་པ་མདོ་སྡེའི་དབང་པོའི་རྒྱལ་པོ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.suvarnaprabhasa*bo-d556.194) — Classical Tibetan --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.suvarnaprabhasa*bo-d556~en-84000.194](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.suvarnaprabhasa*bo-d556~en-84000.194) · Pramāṇa