Shikshasamuccaya 109

109

api tu khalu punar a-vikalpa eva hīna-madhya-utkṛṣṭānāṃ satvānāṃ vyādhīn apanayati | evam eva kula-putra bodhi-satvena mahā-satvena + asmiṃś cāturmahābhautike ātma-bhāve bhaiṣajya-saṃjñā + utpādayitavyā yeṣāṃ yeṣāṃ satvānāṃ yena yena + arthaḥ tat tad eva me harantu hastaṃ hasta-arthinaḥ pādaṃ pāda-arthina iti pūrva-vat ||

"rather, entirely free from conceptual thought, it removes the diseases of inferior, middling, and superior sentient beings alike; even so, noble son, a bodhisattva mahāsattva must form the notion of medicine with regard to this embodiment composed of the four great elements: 'Whatever purpose whatever sentient beings may have with whatever thing, let them take just that from me: a hand to those who want a hand, a foot to those who want a foot,' and so forth as before."