Aspects of Mahayana Buddhism and its Relation to Hinayana c8.s9.21
Aspects of Mahāyāna Buddhism and its Relation to Hīnayāna c8.s9.21
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c8.s9.21
He attained nirodha in the sixth bhūmi, and in the seventh, he entered into and arose out of it but it should not be thought that he is subject to nirodha because he is above the delusion (vitarkadoṣa) of the Śrāvakas, viz., that nirodha is saṃskṛtātyanta vyupaśama (the ultimate cessation of the constituted things).⁴ It is one of the excellences of bodhisattvas that they rise up to, and remain in, the bhūtakoti-vihāra (i.e., ultimate possible state of sentient existence)⁵ but are never subject to nirodha.