Aspects of Mahayana Buddhism and its Relation to Hinayana c8.s9.15

c8.s9.15

For even a moment he does not remain dissociated from mārga-abhinirhāra (activities relating to the path), and jñānābhirhāra (activities relating to jñāna). He completes all the ten pāramitās² and the four saṃgrahavastus, four adhiṣṭhānas and thirty-seven bodhipakṣika dharmas.³ He is now endowed with kāyakarma and vākkarma, pure according to the aspiration of the bodhisattva, the ten kuśala-karmapathas practised by Samyaksambuddhas and performs spontaneously the functions connected with the worldly arts and crafts (śilpasthānakarmasthāna) which were mastered by him in the fifth bhūmi,¹ and is now the teacher of beings of the three thousand worlds ² and has no equal in āśaya (aspiration) and exertion (prayoga) excepting, of course, those bodhisattvas who are in the higher bhūmis. He has now in front of his mind all dhyānas, samādhis, samāpattis, abhijñās and vimoksas, which will be completed in the following bhūmis. He now practises many samādhis and goes beyond the Śrāvaka and Pratyekabuddha bhūmi and approaches the Prajñājñānavicāraṇabhūmi.³