[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) › 4.21 # འཕགས་པ་གསར་འད་དམ་པ་མཆག་ཏ་རྣམ་པར་རྒྱལ་བའ་མད་སྡའ་རྒྱལ་པ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 4.21 The Sūtra of the Sublime Golden Light (1) 4.21 - **Language:** English ### [4.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.suvarnaprabhasa*bo~en-84000.4.21) having heard the Bhagavat teach those dhāraṇīs, 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 feet, and praised him with these verses: “I respectfully praise the one beyond example. Only the Buddha can guide and liberate beings Who have lost the true knowledge, The Dharma with very profound qualities. “The Tathāgata has eyes of wisdom That do not see a single characteristic of phenomena. The complete examination⁵⁷³ with the eyes Of the true Dharma is inconceivable. “Each single phenomenon is birthless; Each single phenomenon has no cessation. Through seeing equally in that way, You have reached the highest state. “Not being terrified⁵⁷⁴ of saṃsāra, Not remaining in nirvāṇa, Unattached to the two extremes, In that way you attained nirvāṇa. “Bhagavat, you know the one taste⁵⁷⁵ Of that which is pure and impure. Through the concept-free state, You have attained supreme purity. “The Bhagavat has an immeasurable body. He does not teach even a single word, Yet a vast rain of Dharma Falls upon his many followers. “The Buddha sees⁵⁷⁶ the characteristics of beings; He knows the entirety of their variety. And yet he always saves them And leads them from their 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 has an outer appearance because He gives these and many other teachings. It is like the analogy of an empty valley’s echo. It is solely the Buddha who knows this. “The Dharma realm has no specifics, And so there are no different yānas, But in order to liberate beings, There are the three kinds of teaching.” - [Previous: 4.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.suvarnaprabhasa*bo~en-84000.4.20) - [Next: 4.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.suvarnaprabhasa*bo~en-84000.4.22) - [Up: 4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.suvarnaprabhasa*bo~en-84000.4) ## 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.4.20-21) — Classical Tibetan --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.suvarnaprabhasa*bo~en-84000.4.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.suvarnaprabhasa*bo~en-84000.4.21) · Pramāṇa