འཕགས་པ་གསར་འད་དམ་པ་མཆག་ཏ་རྣམ་པར་རྒྱལ་བའ་མད་སྡའ་རྒྱལ་པ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 4.11
The Sūtra of the Sublime Golden Light (1) 4.11
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4.11
all bodhisattvas see that the ground in the trichiliocosm world realms has become as flat as the palm of the hand; has a variety of countless, innumerable, excellent colors; and is adorned by pure jewels.
“Noble one, the appearance of a sign that is the omen⁵¹³ for the third bodhisattva bhūmi⁵¹⁴ is like this: all bodhisattvas see themselves as a warrior adorned in armor and defeating⁵¹⁵ all their adversaries.
“Noble one, the appearance of a sign that is the omen⁵¹⁶ for the fourth bodhisattva bhūmi⁵¹⁷ is like this: all bodhisattvas see circles of wind from the four directions scattering a variety of sublime flowers that cover the earth.
“Noble one, the appearance of a sign that is the omen⁵¹⁸ for the fifth bodhisattva bhūmi⁵¹⁹ is like this: all bodhisattvas see bodies covered by the adornment of various precious jewelry and garlands of flowers adorning their heads.
“Noble one, the appearance of a sign that is the omen⁵²⁰ for the sixth bodhisattva bhūmi⁵²¹ is like this: all bodhisattvas see a flower pond made of the seven precious materials, with four stairways, with a bottom of gold sand, filled with perfectly clear, aromatic water that possesses the eight good qualities and is covered by blue lotuses, night lotuses, and white lotuses, and those playing within it are very happy—it is very pure and beyond analogy.
“Noble one, the appearance of a sign that is the omen⁵²² for the seventh bodhisattva bhūmi⁵²³ is like this: all bodhisattvas see before a bodhisattva those beings who are going to fall into the hells,⁵²⁴ but through the power of the bodhisattva they do not fall, are not even injured, and are not even terrified or frightened.