Bodhicaryavatara 1.31

1.31

niśāyāṃ yathā jaladāgamasamaye meghairbahule tamasi sati saudāmanī kṣaṇalavamātramālokayati kiṃcidvastujātaṃ prakāśayati / saivopamā atrāpi ityāha- buddhānubhāvenetyādi / buddhā eva hi bhagavanto hitasukhopasaṃhārāya sadā bhavyābhavyatayā sarvasattvasaṃtānamavalokayantastiṣṭhanti / yadā yatra yenopāyena yasmai yaṃ bhavyaṃ paśyanti tadā tatra tenopāyena tasmai tamadhitiṣṭhanti / abhavyāvasthāyāmupekṣya viharanti / iti tathāgatādhiṣṭhānena kathaṃciddurlabhotpattikatvāt / lokasya janasya puṇyeṣu hitasukhahetuṣu kuśaleṣu karmasu buddhirmuhūrtamekaṃ bhavet / tatra tasyā asthiratvāt / anādisaṃsāre lokena akuśalapakṣasyaiva abhyastatvāt //

At night, just as during the monsoon season when there is dense darkness due to clouds, lightning illuminates for merely a brief instant and reveals some group of objects; the very same comparison applies here too, hence he says: "by the power of the Buddha," and so on. For the Buddhas, the Blessed Ones, in order to bestow benefit and happiness, constantly remain looking upon the mind-streams of all sentient beings in terms of their receptivity or non-receptivity. When, where, by what means, and for whom they see someone who is receptive, then, there, by that means, they bless them. In a state of non-receptivity, they remain detached. Thus, by the blessing of the Tathāgatas, because its arising is somehow rare, the intellect of the world—of people—might turn for a single moment toward merits, toward wholesome deeds that are the cause of benefit and happiness. For it is unstable there, because throughout beginningless cyclic existence the world has practiced only the unwholesome side.