རབ་འབྱོར་དེ་ལྟར་ན་རིགས་ཀྱི་བུ་འམ་རིགས་ཀྱི་བུ་མོ་དེའི་དགེ་བའི་རྩ་བ་ཡོངས་སུ་བསྔོ་བ་དེ་ནི། རབ་ཅེས་བྱའོ། །གཙོ་བོ་ཞེས་བྱའོ། །དམ་པ་ཞེས་བྱའོ། །ཕུལ་ཞེས་བྱའོ། །མཆོག་ཅེས་བྱའོ། །གྱ་ནོམ་པ་ཞེས་བྱའོ། །བླ་ན་མྱེད་པ་ཞེས་བྱའོ། །གོང་ན་མྱེད་པ་ཞེས་བྱའོ། །
“Moreover, Subhūti, if all those beings of this great billionfold world system, as many as there are, were to have set out for unsurpassed, perfect, complete enlightenment, and if all those beings, as many as there are, in the world systems of the eastern direction, numerous as the grains of sand of the river Gaṅgā, were, for eons as numerous as the grains of sand of the river Gaṅgā, to serve, respect, honor, and worship each of those bodhisattva great beings with many of the basic necessities—robes, alms, bedding, and medications owing to ill health—and were to serve them with all the everyday necessities for happiness; and all those beings, as many as there are, in the world systems of the southern direction, numerous as the grains of sand of the river Gaṅgā, were, for eons as numerous as the grains of sand of the river Gaṅgā, to serve, respect, honor, and worship each of those bodhisattva great beings with many of the basic necessities—robes, alms, bedding, and medications owing to ill health—and were to serve them with all the everyday necessities for happiness; and all those beings, as many as there are, in the world systems of the western direction, numerous as the grains of sand of the river Gaṅgā, were, for eons as numerous as the grains of sand of the river Gaṅgā, to serve, respect, honor, and worship each of those bodhisattva great beings with many of the basic necessities—robes, alms, bedding, and medications owing to ill health—and were to serve them with all the everyday necessities for happiness; and all those beings, as many as there are, in the world systems of the northern direction, numerous as the grains of sand of the river Gaṅgā, were, for eons as numerous as the grains of sand of the river Gaṅgā, to serve, respect, honor, and worship each of those bodhisattva great beings with many of the basic necessities—robes, alms, bedding, and medications owing to ill health—and were to serve them with all the everyday necessities for happiness; and all those beings, as many as there are, in the world systems of the intermediate northeastern direction, numerous as the grains of sand of the river Gaṅgā, were, for eons as numerous as the grains of sand of the river Gaṅgā, to serve, respect, honor, and worship each of those bodhisattva great beings with many of the basic necessities—robes, alms, bedding, and medications owing to ill health—and were to serve them with all the everyday necessities for happiness; and all those beings, as many as there are, in the world systems of the intermediate southeastern direction, numerous as the grains of sand of the river Gaṅgā, were, for eons as numerous as the grains of sand of the river Gaṅgā, to serve, respect, honor, and worship each of those bodhisattva great beings with many of the basic necessities—robes, alms, bedding, and medications owing to ill health—and were to serve them with all the everyday necessities for happiness; and all those beings, as many as there are, in the world systems of the intermediate southwestern direction, numerous as the grains of sand of the river Gaṅgā, were, for eons as numerous as the grains of sand of the river Gaṅgā, to serve, respect, honor, and worship each of those bodhisattva great beings with many of the basic necessities—robes, alms, bedding, and medications owing to ill health—and were to serve them with all the everyday necessities for happiness; and all those beings, as many as there are, in the world systems of the intermediate northwestern direction, numerous as the grains of sand of the river Gaṅgā, were, for eons as numerous as the grains of sand of the river Gaṅgā, to serve, respect, honor, and worship each of those bodhisattva great beings with many of the basic necessities—robes, alms, bedding, and medications owing to ill health—and were to serve them with all the everyday necessities for happiness; and all those beings, as many as there are, in the world systems of the direction below, numerous as the grains of sand of the river Gaṅgā, were, for eons as numerous as the grains of sand of the river Gaṅgā, to serve, respect, honor, and worship each of those bodhisattva great beings with many of the basic necessities—robes, alms, bedding, and medications owing to ill health—and were to serve them with all the everyday necessities for happiness; and all those beings, as many as there are, in the world systems of the direction above, numerous as the grains of sand of the river Gaṅgā, were, for eons as numerous as the grains of sand of the river Gaṅgā, to serve, respect, honor, and worship each of those bodhisattva great beings with many of the basic necessities—robes, alms, bedding, and medications owing to ill health—and were to serve them with all the everyday necessities for happiness, do you think, Subhūti, that the merit of those sons or daughters of good families for that reason would have increased greatly?”
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