金光明經文句記 6.93

6.93

二、理。秖於四事而解四德，故成理益。以十千魚由戒緩故受鱗介身，由乘急故今遇大乘真善知識，故能於事深解妙理。受食得命即表真常，受水得樂表涅槃樂，於十二棘林解自在我，依十號法獲天報財，於世淨命解性淨德。此四法益因流水得，故持四萬真珠瓔珞報恩，供養食等四事。既表理益，四萬珠瓔豈但事供？蓋表千界萬如，是法一一皆具常樂我淨。即四十千真珠瓔珞非嚴而嚴，嚴於法身，此乃財供而成法供。若不爾者，豈得名為有妙善根得記緣耶？

Second, principle. Just in the four phenomena, they understood the four virtues; thus the benefit of principle was accomplished. Because the ten thousand fish had been lax in precepts, they received bodies with scales and shells; because they had been earnest in the vehicle, they now encountered a true good spiritual friend of the Great Vehicle, and were therefore able to deeply understand the wondrous principle in phenomena. Receiving food and gaining life represents true eternity; receiving water and gaining bliss represents the bliss of nirvāṇa; regarding the briar patch of the twelve [links], they understood sovereign selfhood; relying on the Dharma of the ten epithets, they obtained the retribution wealth of heaven; regarding worldly pure livelihood, they understood the virtue of innate purity. These four Dharma-benefits were obtained on account of Jalavāhana; therefore, they held forty thousand genuine pearl necklaces to repay his kindness, making offerings of the four phenomena of food and the rest. Since they represent the benefit of principle, how could the forty thousand pearl necklaces merely be a phenomenal offering? They represent the thousand realms and ten thousand suchnesses, these phenomena each and all possessing eternity, bliss, self, and purity. That is, the forty thousand genuine pearl necklaces, being unadorned yet adorned, adorned the Dharma-body; this is a material offering turning into an offering of the Dharma. Were it not so, how could they be said to have wondrous good roots as the condition for receiving the prediction?