新華嚴經論 39.2

39.2

第二推德昇進中，從「諸菩薩摩訶薩」已下至「辭退而去」，并頌有十八行經，約立五門：一推德昇進；二示善知識所在，云在此菩提場如來會中；三舉神之名，名守護一切城增長威力；四善財說頌讚寂靜音海之德；五禮敬辭去。隨文釋義者，此菩提場內如來會中者，表不離菩提心真如體大會海中故。有夜神者，明菩提性真如中妙理智慧為神。能破一切眾生無明執著，為主夜神，常不離生死大夜起發一切眾生大明生故。名守護一切城增長威力者，表常守護一切眾生心城，增長第六地中及一切眾生智慧威力，使三空現前，寂滅定力、世間出世間智慧悉現前力，永超生死海、常住世間，得一切出世間智慧海力，如下文具明。如善財以十行頌歎寂靜音海神法界身無邊佛海眾生海悉在一塵中，此尊解脫力明前五地中禪體法身性無邊際大小量故，如水鏡、空中乾體，普含眾像皆現其中不相礙也。以定力印之自現，如頌中自明。

In the second [section], on deferring virtue and advancing, from “all bodhisattva mahāsattvas” down to “he took his leave and departed,” including the verses, there are eighteen lines of the sūtra text, which are established under five headings: first, deferring virtue and advancing; second, pointing out the abode of the kalyāṇamitra, saying that she is here in this bodhimaṇḍa within the Tathāgata's assembly; third, citing the name of the spirit, named Sarvanagararakṣāsaṃvardhavīryaprabhāvā; fourth, Sudhana uttering verses praising the virtues of the night spirit Samanta-gambhadhvanitrāṇa; fifth, paying homage and departing. In explaining the meaning according to the text: being “here in this bodhimaṇḍa within the Tathāgata's assembly” indicates that one does not depart from the bodhicitta, the essence of tathatā, within the ocean of the great assembly. The presence of the night spirit clarifies that the wondrous principle and wisdom within the nature of bodhi, tathatā, constitute the spirit. Being able to shatter the ignorance and grasping of all sentient beings, she is a presiding night spirit, because she constantly never departs from the great night of saṃsāra, giving rise to the great dawn for all sentient beings. Being named “Protector of All Cities and Augmenting Majestic Power” symbolizes constantly protecting the mind-city of all sentient beings, augmenting the majestic power of wisdom in the sixth ground and of all sentient beings, causing the three kinds of emptiness to become manifest, and the power of quiescent meditative concentration and worldly and transworldly wisdom all to manifest before them—the power that eternally transcends the ocean of saṃsāra while constantly abiding in the world, attaining the ocean-like power of all transworldly wisdom, as will be explained fully below. As Sudhana with ten lines of verse praises the dharmadhātu body of the spirit Samanta-gambhadhvanitrāṇa—in which the boundless oceans of buddhas and oceans of sentient beings are all present within a single dust mote—this deity's power of liberation clarifies that the essence of dhyāna and nature of the dharmakāya in the preceding five grounds are boundless, without measure of large or small; just like a water-mirror or the dry essence in empty space, it universally contains the multitude of forms, all appearing within it without mutual obstruction. Imprinted by the power of samādhi, they naturally manifest, as is made clear in the verses themselves.