[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) › 5.12 # འཕགས་པ་གསར་འད་དམ་པ་མཆག་ཏ་རྣམ་པར་རྒྱལ་བའ་མད་སྡའ་རྒྱལ་པ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 5.12 The Sūtra of the Sublime Golden Light (1) 5.12 - **Language:** English ### [5.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.suvarnaprabhasa*bo~en-84000.5.12) Until they were made into a powder of the smallest particles, And if this were made into a heap, Its size would be hard to know. “And similarly, if in all the realms in the ten directions That fill the element of space⁷¹⁸ Their earth was made into a powder of particles, One would be unable to calculate the number of those particles. “But if the knowledge of all beings Were to all be given to one man, And with that measureless knowledge He could know the number of those particles, “And if a group of such wise persons⁷¹⁹ tried to know What a bhagavat muni knows in a single instant, They would fail to know or calculate a tiny part of it, Even in many tens of millions of eons.” At that time, the vast assembly, having heard the Bhagavat teaching this profound nature of emptiness, realized that the four great elements and the five skandhas of all countless beings are by nature empty, and the six senses and six sensory objects are not real but create bondage. They rejected saṃsāra and prayed that they would accomplish truly departing from it, and with extremely clear minds they were overjoyed, and they devotedly practiced what had been taught. Chapter 10: The Fulfillment of Prayers on the Basis of Emptiness Then the goddess Wish-Fulfilling Radiating Light, who was within the great assembly, was delighted and overjoyed on hearing that very profound Dharma teaching. She rose from her seat and, with her upper robe over one shoulder, knelt on her right knee, placed her palms together in homage, and said to the Bhagavat, “Bhagavat, what instruction do you give on a Dharma for the practice of meditation on the ways of profound meaning?”⁷²⁰ Then she spoke this verse: - [Previous: 5.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.suvarnaprabhasa*bo~en-84000.5.11) - [Next: 5.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.suvarnaprabhasa*bo~en-84000.5.13) - [Up: 5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.suvarnaprabhasa*bo~en-84000.5) ## 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.5.11-12) — Classical Tibetan --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.suvarnaprabhasa*bo~en-84000.5.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.suvarnaprabhasa*bo~en-84000.5.12) · Pramāṇa