ཀུན་དགའ་བོ་ཁྱོད་ཀྱིས་འདི་ཉིད་ནི་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་དེའི་རིང་བསྲེལ་ཡིན་པར་རིག་པར་བྱའོ། །ཡང་ཚེ་དང་ལྡན་པ་ཀུན་དགའ་བོ་ལ་བཀའ་སྩལ་པ།
“He also said to Venerable Ānanda, ‘In the past, even when I had such kleśas as desire, anger, and ignorance, I saved and helped, according to their circumstances, the five kinds of beings, such as those in the hells, pretas, and animals, so that they attained the state of leaving behind saṃsāra.
Buddhism, Enlightenment, Ānanda