Shikshasamuccaya 113.4

113.4

sarva-jagat-paripācana-nidānaṃ mahā-praṇidhānaṃ pratipadyamāno bodhi-satva-caryāyāṃ saṃvasamānaḥ sarva-jñatā-saṃbhāraṃ saṃbharamāṇaḥ praṇidhim a-riñcan so * atra yakṛt-bukkā-phupphuṣaṃ yācakebhyaḥ parityajan yācanaka-abhiprasannayā dṛṣṭyā prasanna-prīty-ākārair netrair bodhi-satva-niryātena premṇā + a-vyutthita-manasi-kāreṇa tyāgena + a-sārāt kāyāt su-pratyavekṣitena sāra-ādāna-cittena śmaśāna-paryantena kāya-anusmṛti-manasi-kāreṇa vṛka-śṛgāla-śva-bhakṣyaṃ śarīraṃ pratyavekṣamāṇaḥ para-bhakti-manasi-kṛtayā | śarīra-a-nityatayā + apaviddha-śarīreṇa para-bhakta-cetanena evaṃ dharma-manasi-kāra-prayukto bodhi-satvas tān yācanakān a-nimiṣaṃ prekṣamāṇa evaṃ cittam utpādayati | yadi ca + aham etad-yācanakasya etac-charīrād antraṃ yakṛt-bukkā-phuṣphuṣaṃ dadyāṃ | yadi vā na dadyāṃ | āyuḥ-kṣaya-paryante na + eṣo nityaḥ śmaśāna-paryavasāna iti | sa evaṃ manasi-kāra-saṃtoṣitena santānena + evaṃ dharma-jñānena + āśayena kalyāṇa-mitra-saṃjñā-adhiṣṭhitena yācanaka-darśanena + a-sārāt kāyāt sāram ādātu-kāmo dharma-kāmatayā sva-māṃsān nakhaṃ parityajann eva tat-kuśala-mūlaṃ pariṇāmayati + ity ātma-bhāva-utsargaṃ kṛtvā ||

Undertaking the great vow that is the cause of maturing all sentient beings, dwelling in the bodhisattva's conduct, gathering the accumulation for omniscience, not abandoning his aspiration, when relinquishing his liver, kidneys, and lungs to suitors here, looking with a gaze that is serene toward the suitors, with eyes displaying serene delight, with affection dedicated to the bodhisattva [path], with uninterrupted mental application, with generosity, with a mind well-observant of extracting the essence from an unessential body, with the mental application of mindfulness of the body that ends in the cremation ground, observing the body as food for wolves, jackals, and dogs, by means of devotion to others mentally produced, through the impermanence of the body, with a discarded body, with the intention of making food for others—engaged in such mental application to the Dharma, gazing unblinkingly at those suitors, the bodhisattva produces this thought: 'Whether I give this suitor the intestines, liver, kidneys, and lungs from this body or do not give them, at the end of the exhaustion of life it is not eternal; its culmination is the cremation ground.' With his mental continuum thus gladdened by such mental application, with such knowledge of the Dharma, with a disposition established in the perception of [them as] virtuous friends upon seeing the suitors, desiring to extract the essence from an unessential body, out of love for the Dharma, when relinquishing the flesh of his nails, he dedicates that root of wholesome virtue. Having thus made the renunciation of his embodiment;