འཕགས་པ་གསར་འད་དམ་པ་མད་སྡའ་དབང་པའ་རྒྱལ་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 4.17
The Sūtra of the Sublime Golden Light (3) 4.17
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4.17
“In the sky there will be no smoke,
And it will not be covered by clouds.
There will be no darkness and no dust,
And everywhere will be completely bright.
“A bright and beautiful net of light rays
That has a thousand rays of sunlight
Brings the most perfect joy
With its profound brightness.
“Even that lord, the deva Sūrya,
Dwelling in his divine palace
Made of Jambū River³⁴⁶ gold,
Will gain satisfaction through this sūtra.
“When Lord Sūrya is gladdened,
He will shine onto Jambudvīpa,
And he will completely illuminate it
With an infinite net of light rays.
“Simply through his rising,
He will shine a net of light rays,
And the lotuses that fill
A variety of ponds will open.
“Throughout the entirety of this Jambudvīpa,
The various flowers, fruits, and herbs
Will perfectly, completely ripen,
And the entire earth will be satisfied.
“The moon and the sun also
Will at that time be brighter.
The lunar asterisms will move perfectly,
And similarly so will the winds.
“Throughout all of Jambudvīpa
There will be excellent harvests.
Wherever this sūtra is present,
That kingdom will be preeminent.”
Chapter 15: The Prophecy to Ten Thousand Devas
When the Bhagavat had said that, the noble goddess Bodhisattvasamuccayā asked him, “Venerable Bhagavat, through what cause and what condition, and through what accomplishment and accumulation of planting good roots, have Jvalanāntaratejorāja and these other ten thousand devas now come from the Trāyastriṃśa paradise, having heard the prophecy to these three sublime beings?
“It was thus: this excellent being, the bodhisattva Ruciraketu, in a future time, after many hundreds of thousands of quintillions of asaṃkhyeyas of eons have passed, will attain the highest, most complete enlightenment of buddhahood in the world realm Suvarṇaprabhā.
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