འཕགས་པ་གསར་འད་དམ་པ་མཆག་ཏ་རྣམ་པར་རྒྱལ་བའ་མད་སྡའ་རྒྱལ་པ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 2.16

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vicious spirits.¹⁹⁹ There will be no end to the ripening of results from hearing the Dharma.

“The tathāgatas have no neutrality. They do not possess the thought, ‘I know all fields of experience.’²⁰⁰ They do not perceive saṃsāra and nirvāṇa as separate. The tathāgatas have no uncertainty whatsoever.²⁰¹ The tathāgatas are never without wisdom in all the four kinds of physical activity. There is no phenomenon that they do not have love and compassion for. There is not a single being to whom they do not bring happiness and benefit.

“Noble one, someone who hears this Sūtra of the Sublime Golden Light and believes in it will never fall into an existence as a hell being, an animal, a preta, or an asura but will always be reborn among devas or humans, so that they will never have an inferior rebirth and will always serve and honor the tathāgatas, listen to and obtain the Dharma, and be reborn into pure buddha realms. Why is that? Because they have heard this extremely profound Dharma.

“Those noble men and noble women²⁰² are known and prophesied by tathāgatas and are irreversibly progressing to the highest, most complete enlightenment.

“The noble men and noble women²⁰³ who hear this profound, sublime Dharma just once will not malign the tathāgatas, will not denigrate the Dharma, and will not defame the ārya saṅgha. In order to cause beings who have not developed good roots to develop them,