四分律行事鈔資持記 1.1221

1.1221

對說中，初引聖儀，誡令倣上。大聖尚爾，下凡不稟，其可得乎！疏具引云：佛坐草座，告諸比丘：汝各坐草座。默久，告諸比丘：我欲受歲，我無過咎於眾人乎？又不犯身口意乎？如是至三，舍利弗言：無三業過，所以然者，不度者度，作眼目醫王，大千界尊，何有過也！指《新歲經》者，彼云：時三千大千世界，六反震動；一萬比丘得道跡，八千比丘得羅漢；空中八萬四千諸天，皆發無上正真道意等。

In the section on making the declaration to one another, it first cites the holy model, admonishing that one must emulate what was done above. If even the Great Sage did so, how could ordinary worldly beings below fail to observe it! The Commentary quotes in full: "The Buddha, sitting on a grass mat, told the bhikṣus: 'Each of you sit on a grass mat.' After a long silence, he addressed the bhikṣus: 'I wish to receive the [pravāraṇā of the] year. Have I any faults toward the community? Have I not offended in body, speech, or mind?' Having repeated this up to three times, Śāriputra said: 'There are no faults of the three actions. Why is this so? You deliver those who are not delivered, you act as the physician king of eyes, the Lord of the Great Thousandfold Realm; what fault could you have!'" Pointing to the Xinsui Jing (Sūtra on the New Year), it says: "At that time, the trichiliocosm trembled in six ways; ten thousand bhikṣus attained the traces of the Way, eight thousand bhikṣus became arhats; and in the air, eighty-four thousand devas all generated the mind for the unsurpassed, correct, and true Way, and so forth."