金剛般若經旨贊 1.14

1.14

經。佛言善哉至囑諸菩薩　贊曰。次下如來印發。於中有三。初明證印。次勅聽許宣。後正發起。此初也。重言善哉。智度論云。此顯佛喜之極甚也。善現所陳有其二意。一所讚稱德。護念付囑。稱佛德故。既因歎佛。兼顯經宗。種姓不斷。意趣玄遠實為善哉二所問稱根位。修降伏攝諸行盡。稱大根姓所應。希學發起行行之相狀。故亦為善哉。由所讚問。稱德稱根。深善其辭。故重贊印。印述等文。文易可解。

Sūtra: “The Buddha said, ‘Excellent, … to all the bodhisattvas.’”
Commentary: Next below, the Tathāgata confirms and initiates. Within this there are three [sections]: first, stating the verification and confirmation; second, commanding them to listen and promising to expound; third, properly initiating. This is the first.
Repeating the words “Excellent, [excellent]”: The Mahāprajñāpāramitā-śāstra says that this shows the Buddha's extreme delight. What Subhūti presented has two points: First, what was praised matched [the Buddha's] virtues, because mindfulness and protection and entrustment matched the Buddha's virtues. Since it praised the Buddha and simultaneously revealed the sūtra's doctrine—that the gotra is not interrupted—the purport is profound and far-reaching, truly being “excellent.” Second, what was asked matched the capacity and stages, for cultivation and subduing exhaustively gather all practices, matching what those of great capacity and gotra should aspire to learn and evoking the marks of practicing practice; therefore, it is also “excellent.” Because what was praised and what was asked matched the virtues and matched the capacities, deeply approving his words, he repeatedly praised and confirmed it. The text of the confirmation and recounting is easy to understand.