མཆོད་པར་བྱས་པ་བས། གང་ལ་ལས་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་སེམས་དཔའ་ཆེན་པོ་སེམས་དང་པོ་བསྐྱེད་པ། ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ་དྲུག་དང་མ་བྲལ་བ་ཞིག་ལ་རིམ་གྲོར་བྱས། བཀུར་སྟིར་བྱས། ཕུ་དུད་དུ་བྱས། མཆོད་པར་བྱས་ན། དེ་ནི་དེ་བས་བསོད་ནམས་ཆེས་མང་དུ་འཕེལ་ལོ། །
“To illustrate, Kauśika, if this billionfold world system were filled entirely with śrāvakas and pratyekabuddhas––like a thicket of naḍa reeds, or a thicket of bamboo, or a grove of sugarcane, or a thicket of rushes, or a thicket of vetiver, or a paddy field of rice, or a field of sesame—and if some sons or daughters of good families were to serve, respect, honor, and worship them, with all the necessities, for as long as they lived, still, were someone to serve, respect, honor, and worship a single bodhisattva great being who has first set the mind on enlightenment and is not separated from the six perfections, that would be an increase in merit much greater than that.
Light, Extent, Perfection