འཕགས་པ་གསར་འད་དམ་པ་མད་སྡའ་དབང་པའ་རྒྱལ་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 95

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And has attained supreme purity.

“The immeasurable body of the Bhagavat
Does not teach even a single word,
And yet a rain of Dharma brings satisfaction
To the entire multitude of this assembly.

“Although he does not see the
Characteristics of all these beings,
The Bhagavat always protects them
From all kleśas and suffering.

“There is no happiness or suffering
No permanence or impermanence,
Self or selflessness, and so on; no singleness
Or multiplicity; and no birth or cessation.

“He teaches and elucidates
That kind of meaning.
The buddhas know this meaning,
Which is like an empty echo.

“As the Dharma realm is indivisible,
There are no other contradictory yānas,
But he has made the division into three
In order to liberate beings.”

Then Maheśvara, the king of the Brahmā devas, rose from his seat and, with his upper robe over one shoulder, knelt on his right knee, placed his palms together in homage, bowed down to the Bhagavat’s two feet, and said to the Bhagavat, “This Lord King of Sūtras, the Sublime Golden Light, is very rare; it is beyond evaluation. It is good in the beginning, good in the middle, and good in the end; it has a good meaning; it has good words; it is unmixed and perfect; and it makes perfect all the Buddhadharma. Whoever possesses and holds it is someone who fulfills the deeds of the buddha bhagavats.”

“Noble one, it is as you have said,” replied the Bhagavat. “Noble one, whoever listens to this sūtra will progress irreversibly to the highest, most complete enlightenment.

“Why is that?