Bodhicaryavatara 1.40

1.40

kathaṃ pravṛddhamityāha- sukhenaiveti / na akṛcchreṇa / na śiroluñcanādinā mahatā kaṣṭena / tathā hi bodhicittasaṃvarādeva bodhisattvo 'mitapuṇyajñānasaṃbhārāt pravardhamāno devamanuṣyasaṃpattīḥ sukhamadhigacchan sattvāneva adhikataraṃ tābhiḥ saṃtarpayatīti / yadvakṣyati-

To the question: 'How has it increased?', he replies: 'only through happiness'—not without ease, not through great hardship such as plucking out one's hair. For indeed, solely from the vow of the awakening mind, the bodhisattva, growing from the boundless accumulation of merit and gnosis and attaining happiness in the splendors of gods and humans, satisfies sentient beings all the more with them. As he will say: