菩薩從兜術天降神母胎說廣普經 3.26

3.26

At that time, there was a devaputra named Gopi who said to the Buddha: “The Buddha subduing the māra was not due to the māra’s power, but was the Buddha’s supernatural power. Why is this? That class of sentient beings did not understand worldly conventions or the truths of the Way; it was because he wished to transform sentient beings that he caused the māra to come. When any sentient beings saw the māras, their minds felt no desire or pleasure [in them], like the comparison of the Thousand-Eyed One; tens of millions in the assembly had their minds established in the stage of non-retrogression.”