[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་མཆོག་ཏུ་རྣམ་པར་རྒྱལ་བའི་མདོ་སྡེའི་རྒྱལ་པོ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.suvarnaprabhasa*bo) › [The Sutra of the Sublime Golden Light (1)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.suvarnaprabhasa*bo~en-84000) › 3.15 # འཕགས་པ་གསར་འད་དམ་པ་མཆག་ཏ་རྣམ་པར་རྒྱལ་བའ་མད་སྡའ་རྒྱལ་པ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 3.15 The Sūtra of the Sublime Golden Light (1) 3.15 - **Language:** English ### [3.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.suvarnaprabhasa*bo~en-84000.3.15) All of this is attained through the power of the roots of goodness from requesting and supplication, and that is why I have now attained this kind of Dharma body. That being so, if whoever³⁸¹ wishes to seek the highest, most complete enlightenment teaches just one word or one verse of this Dharma³⁸² teaching to others, the good roots from that will be immeasurable, let alone requesting the tathāgatas to turn the great wheel of the Dharma and supplicating them not to pass into nirvāṇa but to remain in the world for a long time.” Then Śakra, the lord of devas, asked the Bhagavat, “Bhagavat,³⁸³ how should a noble man or noble woman dedicate to the wisdom of omniscience all the good roots that come from seeking the highest, most complete enlightenment and meditating on the path of the three yānas?”³⁸⁴ The Bhagavat said to Śakra, the lord of devas, “Noble son, those beings³⁸⁵who wish to dedicate whatever roots of goodness they have from seeking enlightenment and meditating on the path of the three yānas³⁸⁶ should in the six periods of the day and night³⁸⁷ say these words with veneration and a single-pointed mind: “ ‘Whatever good roots I have that have come from perfecting my practice focused upon the Three Jewels throughout beginningless saṃsāra, even down to giving a handful of food to a creature that has been born as an animal,³⁸⁸ such as resolving conflicts with virtuous words, having gone to the Three Jewels for refuge and perfectly taken up the training, having practiced purity through regret, - [Previous: 3.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.suvarnaprabhasa*bo~en-84000.3.14) - [Next: 3.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.suvarnaprabhasa*bo~en-84000.3.16) - [Up: 3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.suvarnaprabhasa*bo~en-84000.3) ## Linked texts (1) - [འཕགས་པ་གསེར་འོད་དམ་པ་མཆོག་ཏུ་རྣམ་པར་རྒྱལ་བའི་མདོ་སྡེའི་རྒྱལ་པོ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.suvarnaprabhasa*bo.3.15) — Classical Tibetan --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.suvarnaprabhasa*bo~en-84000.3.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.suvarnaprabhasa*bo~en-84000.3.15) · Pramāṇa