དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པ་དེ་ལ་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་མ་གཏོགས་པར་ཉན་ཐོས་ནི་མི་མངའ་སྟེ། །
“Ānanda, it is like this: when, to give an analogy, a crown-anointed king of a royal line has many sons, his ministers are also his sons, his ministerial advisors are also his sons, his closest attendants are also his sons, and vassal kings are also his sons.
Buddhism, Enlightenment, Ānanda