བདག་གིས་ནི་ད་ལྟར་དེ་དག་མཉེས་པར་བྱས་པས་དགེ་བའི་ལུས་ཐོབ་ཀྱིས་སྦྱིན་གནས་ཐམས་ཅད་ཉེ་བར་འཚོ་བར་བྱའོ། ། ལུས་དང་སྲོག་ལ་མི་ལྟ་བར་སློབ་དཔོན་ལ་རིམ་གྲོ་དང་། བསྙེན་བཀུར་བྱའོ་ཞེས། ཤཱ་རིའི་བུ་སེམས་བསྐྱེད་པ་དྲུག་པ་དེ་བསྐྱེད་ནས་ བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་སློབ་དཔོན་ལ་རིམ་གྲོ་དང་། བསྙེན་བཀུར་བྱེད་དེ ཐ་ན་ཆུ་བུམ་པ་གང་ཙམ་ཡང་འབུལ་ལོ། །
“Furthermore, Śāriputra, the bodhisatva cultivates the following thought: ‘For a long time I had no spiritual friends. Surrounded by evil friends, I was lazy, and so forth, and I had the sort of convictions that led me to believe that acts of homage, salutation, praise, reverence, respect, and honor would not have any consequences. Overcome by conceit, I engaged in much that was unwholesome, and when the fruits of these unwholesome actions ripened, I had to endure cruel states of existence where I had no inclination to serve those who are worthy of veneration. When I took a human existence I became a wretched human being, a poor human being. I became a servant under the rule of others, [MS.65.a] under the rule of beings who were greedy for pleasures of the senses, caught up in pleasures of the senses, who acted in coarse ways and upheld wrong views, whose morality was misguided, whose practice was misguided, and whose views were misguided, who engaged in the three unwholesome roots and the four wrong ways of approaching things, who were clouded by the five obscurations, who had no reverence for the six kinds of gurus, who resorted to the seven kinds of untrue teachings, who were caught up in the eight kinds of mistakes, who were overcome by the nine types of harmful acts, who were following the wrong path and engaging in the ten unwholesome forms of conduct, heading along the road to hell, who had turned away from the road that leads to the celestial realms, who had abandoned their spiritual friends and fallen into the hands of evil friends, who were under the sway of Māra, who had abandoned wholesome actions, and who were engaging in unwholesome actions. I was terrorized with sticks. I felt the terror of fear and had to act against my will. I was forced to carry loads and had to honor and serve them. In this kind of state, I had no inclination to serve those who are worthy of veneration. Now that I have attained this fortunate state, and now that my motivation is good, I will dedicate my life to those who are worthy of veneration and serve the teachers with no concern for my body, my life, or my honor.’
Bodhisattva, Buddha, Teachings