འཕགས་པ་གསར་འད་དམ་པ་མད་སྡའ་དབང་པའ་རྒྱལ་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 47

47

“ ‘Golden in color, stainless gold, golden light,
With the feature of eyes of pure, stainless beryl—
A buddha sun, the source of glorious brilliance and blazing fame
Dispels deep darkness with the light rays of compassion.

“ ‘With perfectly stainless, very beautiful, excellent limbs,
The buddha sun’s limbs are as if covered with stainless gold.
The light rays of the muni moon bring pleasure
To minds pained by the fires of the kleśas, which are like blazing fires.

“ ‘With faculties and limbs beautified by the thirty-two supreme signs,
Limbs beautified by the excellent features,
And with a net of light rays producing blazing, glorious, brilliant merit,
You are present like the sun in the darkness of the three worlds.

“ ‘Body aspects the color of vast, beautiful, stainless beryl;
The red of dawn, silver, crystal, and copper-red;
Adorned by a net of light rays of various colors,
You, great Muni, are beautiful like the sun.

“ ‘The multitude of light rays from the sun of the sugatas dry up¹¹⁵
The intensely fierce and violent ocean of suffering.
Falling into the river of distress, the great river of saṃsāra,
Waters of death and waves of aging¹¹⁶ churn with misery.

“ ‘I praise the buddhas, who have golden bodies,
The source of wisdom, supreme within the three worlds.
Their limbs shine with the color of gold;
Their limbs are adorned by beautiful signs.

“ ‘Just as the water of the ocean is immeasurable,
Just as the particles in the earth are infinite,
Just as there is no end of stones in Meru,
And just as there is an endless extent to space,

“ ‘The qualities of a buddha are similarly infinite.
There is no one among all beings who can know them.
Even if they examined and contemplated for many eons,
They still would not know the end¹¹⁷ of those qualities.

“ ‘By counting for eons one may know how many measures,
Each the size of a drop of water on the tip of a hair,
There are in the earth, with its stones, mountains, and oceans,
But one could never perceive a limit to the qualities of a buddha.

“ ‘May all beings become like that,
With those qualities, colors, fame, and renown,