Bodhicaryavatara 1.60

1.60

kadalī yathā palamekavāraṃ datvā na punaḥ phalati, tathā bodhicittādanyadapi kuśalaṃ sarvameva kiṃcideva vipāke paripakve na punaḥ phaladānasamarthaṃ bhavati / tāvataivāsya parikṣayāt, vipākasya ca avyākṛtatayā punaḥ phalānubandhābhāvāt / bodhicittasya punarayaṃ viśeṣaḥ ityāha- satatamityādi / sarvakālaṃ phalati devamanuṣyopapattiṣu sukhasaṃpattipradānāt kṣayaṃ na yāti tadanyakuśalavat, sthirasvabhāvatvāt / pratikṣaṇamanekaprakāraiḥ śubhameghapravāhairāpūryamāṇatvācca prasavatyeva tu bodhicittavṛkṣaḥ, avicchinnasukhasaṃpattiphalaprasavanāt, uttarottaramaparā paraguṇaviśeṣajananācca / bodhicittaṃ vṛkśa iva / upamitaṃ vyāghrādibhiḥ iti samāsaḥ / yasmādevam, tasmādanuparatamatiśayavatsarvasukhasaṃpadaḥ prāptukāmaiḥ prekṣāvadbhiridameva grāhyam / kathitaṃ caitadāryākṣayamatinirdeśe-

Just as the plantain, having yielded fruit once, does not bear fruit again, so too all other virtue apart from the awakening mind, having yielded a mere portion when the fruition is ripened, is no longer capable of bearing fruit. For it is completely exhausted by just that much, and because the fruition is neutral, there is no subsequent continuation of fruit. But this is the distinctive quality of the awakening mind, so he says: "constantly," and so forth. It bears fruit at all times, through bestowing the prosperity of happiness in rebirths as gods and humans; it does not perish like virtue other than that, because its intrinsic nature is stable. And because it is replenished at every instant by streams of clouds of virtue of many kinds, "the tree of the awakening mind only burgeons," because it produces the fruit of uninterrupted prosperity of happiness, and because it generates subsequent higher and higher qualities. The awakening mind is like a tree; the compound is formed according to [the rule regarding comparison with] "tiger and so on." Since it is so, therefore this alone should be grasped by discerning people who wish to attain continuous, superior prosperity of all happiness. And this is stated in the Ārya-Akṣayamatinirdeśa: