དེ་སྐད་ཅེས་གསོལ་པ་དང་། བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས་ཀྱིས་ཚོང་དཔོན་གྱི་བུ་མིས་བྱིན་ལ་འདི་སྐད་ཅེས་བཀའ་སྩལ་ཏོ། ། མིས་བྱིན་བླ་ན་མེད་པ་ཡང་དག་པར་རྫོགས་པའི་བྱང་ཆུབ་ནི་ཡིད་ཆེས་པར་དཀའ་བ། བསྒྲུབ་པར་དཀའ་བའོ། ། གསོལ་པ་བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས་བླ་ན་མེད་པ་ཡང་དག་པར་རྫོགས་པའི་བྱང་ཆུབ་ཡིད་ཆེས་པར་དཀའ་ཞིང་། བསྒྲུབ་པར་དཀའ་ལགས་ཀྱང་བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས་དེ་དང་འཐུན་པར་བརྩོན་འགྲུས་བརྩམས་ཏེ། བླ་ན་མེད་པ་ཡང་དག་པར་རྫོགས་པའི་བྱང་ཆུབ་བསྒྲུབ་པར་བགྱིའོ། །
Now, in the assembly at that time there was a merchant by the name of Naradatta. Sitting there, in the presence of the Lord, he listened to the cycle of teachings contained in The Collected Teachings on the Bodhisatva that describes the characteristics of the buddhas and the characteristics of the bodhisatvas. He then got up from his seat, placed his robe over one shoulder, knelt down on his right knee, joined his hands in reverence facing in the direction of the Lord, and said, “Lord, the elder Aniruddha has encouraged me and instructed me in the following way: ‘Householder, you must attain the state of an arhat, since this will put an end to aging and death.’ Now that I have listened to this cycle of teachings contained in The Collected Teachings on the Bodhisatva in the presence of the Lord, however, and heard about the characteristics of the buddhas and the characteristics of the bodhisatvas, I have concluded that the Mahāyāna is the best, the most excellent, supreme, superior, and unsurpassed when it comes to unsurpassed perfect awakening. I have heard about it directly from the Lord, including all its detailed teachings, and indeed it is to be cultivated as the very best. Still, when reflecting on it, I also understand that one should not appropriate, identify with, or hold on to each of the detailed dharma-entities. What I should adopt and engage with is the dharma that is the best, the most excellent, supreme, superior, and unsurpassed. In this matter, Lord, it is my view that among all the vehicles, the one that ranks highest is the unsurpassed Buddhayāna. Whatever vehicles there may be, it is the Tathāgatayāna that can be proclaimed as the best among them, and so forth, that can be proclaimed to have nothing that surpasses it. From now on, Lord, I will cultivate the mind of unsurpassed perfect awakening for the sake of the many, for the benefit of the many, for the happiness of the many, for the love of the world, in order to help, benefit, and bring happiness to a great multitude of beings, and for the sake of gods and men. This is how I will train in the bodhisatva training.”
Bodhisattva, Buddha, Teachings