金剛般若經旨贊 1.87

1.87

Sūtra: "If, furthermore, a person [takes from this sūtra even a four-line verse, receives, retains, and expounds it for others,] their merit surpasses the former."

Commentary: Next is the revelation through comparison. Within it are three parts: first, explaining that the merit is superior; next, questioning the reason; later, explaining the reason. This is the first. Because the merit of that generosity merely brings about birth-and-death and does not tend toward bodhi, that merit is inferior. If, concerning this sūtra, one receives, retains, and expounds it, one will induce bodhi, and that merit surpasses the former. Therefore, bodhisattvas should sever doubt and not say that there is no merit and fail to uphold and expound it. Thus Vasubandhu's treatise, in the verse severing doubt, says: