Shikshasamuccaya 81

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Nor should one here entertain suspicion of an infraction in another life on account of undertaking the vow for all time, because in this very sūtra the aspiration of Akṣobhya is approved. For thus it was said: 'Just as that Tathāgata Akṣobhya, when he was previously a bodhisattva, spoke these words: "The blessed Buddhas would be deceived by me if I were not to go forth into homelessness in every birth." One birth must be purified with effort by the wise-minded; / and he himself will purify the other births until awakening'—since this was said.