經律異相 40.16

40.16

有寶海梵志。白佛。願如來及比丘僧。滿七歲中受我四事供養。如來許可。梵志後時作如是念。我今已令百千億那由他眾生發菩提心。然我不知轉輪聖王所願何等為願。人王天王聲聞緣覺。為求無上菩提。若我來世必成佛道。我於夜臥當有諸天魔梵諸佛世尊為我現夢。於睡眠中見有光明。即見十方恒沙世界諸佛世尊。各各遙授蓮華與之。其花微妙各於華臺見日輪像。於日輪上有七寶蓋。一一日輪各出六十億光。皆悉來入梵志口中。自見其光滿千由旬。淨如明鏡見其腹內。六十億那由他百千菩薩。在蓮華上結跏趺坐三昧正受。復見日鬚圍繞其身。於諸華中出諸伎樂。又見其王。血出污身四方馳走。面首似猪噉種種蟲。坐伊蘭樹下。有無量眾生來食其身。唯餘骨瑣。數數受身亦復如是。復見諸王子。或作猪象或水牛師子狐狼虎豹獼猴等面。以血污身皆噉眾生。坐伊蘭樹下。復有無量眾生。來食其身。骨瑣已離。數數受身亦復如是。或見王子。須曼那花以作瓔珞。載小弊車駕以水牛。從不正道南向馳走。復見四天大王釋提桓因大梵天王來至其所。告梵志言。汝今四邊所有蓮華。應先取一華與轉輪王。一一王子各與一華。其餘諸花與諸小王。次與汝子。并及餘人即皆賦之。忽然而寤。憶念夢中所見諸事。得知聖王所願卑下愛樂生死。復知諸王子發心。求聲聞乘者故我夢見須曼那花以作瓔珞。載水牛車於不正道南向馳走。我何緣故夢見於此。諸佛世尊。以我先教勸閻浮提內無量眾生。悉令安住三福處故發菩提心。請佛及僧。滿足七歲奉諸所安耳（出寶梵志請如來經）。

There was a brahmacārin named Samudrareṇu who said to the Buddha: "May the Tathāgata and the assembly of monks accept my four requisites of offering for a full seven years." The Tathāgata consented. Later, the brahmacārin had this thought: "I have now caused hundreds of thousands of koṭis of nayutas of sentient beings to bring forth the bodhicitta. Yet I do not know what the wheel-turning sage king aspires to—whether he seeks to be a king of men, a king of gods, a śrāvaka, a pratyekabuddha, or seeks supreme bodhi. If in a future life I am certain to attain the Buddha Way, when I lie down to sleep at night, the devas, Māra, Brahmā, and all Buddha World-Honoured Ones should manifest dreams to me." In his sleep, he saw a light, and immediately saw all the Buddha World-Honoured Ones of worlds as numerous as the sands of the Ganges in the ten directions, each from afar bestowing a lotus upon him. The flowers were marvelous, and on each flower platform, a solar disk was seen. Above the solar disk was a seven-jeweled canopy. From each solar disk issued sixty koṭis of light rays, all of which entered the brahmacārin's mouth. He saw his own light fill a thousand yojanas, pure as a clear mirror, and looking into his belly, he saw sixty koṭis of nayutas of hundreds of thousands of bodhisattvas sitting cross-legged on lotuses in samādhi. He further saw the filaments of the sun surrounding his body, and from among the flowers issued all kinds of instrumental music. He also saw his king, covered in blood, running in all four directions, with the face and head of a pig, eating various insects, sitting beneath an eraṇḍa tree, with immeasurable sentient beings coming to consume his body until only a skeleton remained; repeatedly taking birth, he was also like this. He further saw the princes, some with the faces of pigs, elephants, water buffaloes, lions, foxes, wolves, tigers, leopards, or monkeys, covered in blood, all eating sentient beings, sitting beneath eraṇḍa trees, with immeasurable sentient beings coming to consume their bodies until their skeletons fell apart; repeatedly taking birth, they were also like this. He also saw a prince wearing sumana flowers as a necklace, riding a small broken cart drawn by a water buffalo, rushing southward along a crooked path. He further saw the Four Great Heavenly Kings, Śakra Devānām Indra, and the Great Brahmā King come to his place and say to the brahmacārin: "You should now first take one lotus from all the lotuses on your four sides and give it to the wheel-turning king, and give one flower to each prince. Give the remaining flowers to the minor kings, next to your sons, and then distribute them all to the other people." Suddenly he awoke. Recalling all the matters he had seen in the dream, he realized that the sage king's vow was lowly and that he loved saṃsāra. He further realized that the princes had brought forth the mind seeking the śrāvaka vehicle, which was why he had dreamed of one wearing sumana flowers as a necklace, riding a water buffalo cart and rushing southward along a crooked path. "For what reason did I dream of this? The Buddha World-Honoured Ones [showed this to me] because I previously exhorted and urged immeasurable sentient beings within Jambudvīpa to dwell securely in the three grounds of merit and bring forth the bodhicitta, inviting the Buddha and the saṅgha to provide all comforts for a full seven years" (from the Sūtra on the Brahmacārin Samudrareṇu Inviting the Tathāgata).