菩薩從兜術天降神母胎說廣普經 6.8

6.8

"‘I am neither a deva, yakṣa, ghost, / Asura, nor garuḍa; / To eliminate ignorance and darkness for my mother, / I was born through skillful means in my parents' home. / The former child without hands or feet / Was also my body; / The one born in the morning and dead by evening / Was the unsurpassable honored one of the eighth stage. / Now I have received this physical form / With three heads and eight hands and feet; / Why do you abandon me and leave, / Heading directly toward the gates of hell? / Hell is replete with all sufferings, / With eighteen boiling caldrons; / Each and every boiling caldron / Is enclosed by sixteen compartments; / Enduring suffering for immeasurable kalpas, / Seeking escape is extremely difficult. / Parents are foolish and deluded people, / Not recognizing the true nature of phenomena; / Holding wrong views, you pray at spirit shrines, / Thinking you will thereby escape suffering and calamity; / Just like when a fire blazes fiercely, / Adding dry firewood and grass / Burns away the roots of goodness; / Seeking to extinguish it is also exceedingly difficult. / Now I restore my body, / Manifesting my original, handsome form; / With a firm mind in the root of the path, / I cultivate the three penetrating knowledges; / From asaṃkhyeya kalpas past, / I vowed to ferry across those who have not crossed over. / Guarding precepts without losing my vows, / I have taken birth in parents' homes, / Relinquishing body and life throughout past and present, / In numbers like fine dust motes. / Wherever I have passed through, / None have not received blessing and protection; / The various kinds of beings / Each have different traces of conduct. / Some should be delivered with joy, / Others transformed through dread and fear; / In accordance with the thoughts of those sentient beings, / I cause what their hearts desire to be fulfilled. / The illnesses of sentient beings are not of a single kind; / I administer to them the medicine of amṛta; / Directing them to enter the discipline of the path, / I do not allow them to enter deviant tracks. / Devas receive the joy of blessings; / Amṛta brings the joy of eliminating illness; / Not violating the sacred teachings brings joy; / Liberation brings the joy of nirvāṇa.’"