All sentient beings and all creatures, It understandeth thoroughly without difficulty: Its Bodies of Transformation are innumerable, And universally revealed in all the worlds. Those who seek after All-knowledge May in course of time attain perfect enlightenment; Let them above all purify the heart And complete their discipline in Bodhisattvahood. {379} And then they will see the Tathâgata’s Immeasurable power that comes from his free will; Devoid of all doubts they are, and accompanied With sages whose virtue is unsurpassable. --- THE TATHÂGATA (2).[a05] The Tathâgata, in pure golden color, And in person resplendent and majestic, In innumerable ages past, All merits hath accumulated. With bliss and wisdom all in perfection, And the highest enlightenment attaining. And with great loving heart animated, He now appeareth in this world of endurance. Men and devas and the eight hosts of demons, All pay him homage most reverent, Who, from his inmost self-being, Preacheth the deepest spiritual Dharma. Which is so unfathomably deep, That Buddha alone can understand it: Multitudes of beings, ignorant and blind, Listening to it, are unable to comprehend. The Tathâgata is the great leader of beings; With skill that is excellent and marvellous, Guiding all those ignorant souls, By degrees bringeth them to Enlightenment. {380} The heart of all beings is miraculously bright, And eternally calm in its being. Pure and immaculate and defilement-free, It is replenished with all merits. Its essence is like unto the sky: Devoid of all limitations, Knoweth neither birth nor death, And there is neither coming nor departing. Eternally abiding in the Dharma-essence, It is immovable as the Mount Sumeru; The oneness in it of all beings Is indeed beyond finite knowledge. Vulgar minds from time immemorial, Blindly clinging to all passions, Are thrown deep into the ocean of pain, And know not how to escape. The most profound doctrine of Tathâgata, Full of meaning, spiritual and transcendental, With recipient intellects in all degrees, In harmony unfoldeth he the Law. A shower of one taste from above Covering all the ten quarters, Grasses and trees, woods and forests, Roots and trunks, large and small, Of all growing on this vast earth, Nothing is there that thereby itself benefiteth not. The Law delivered by the Tathâgata May even be likened unto it. {381} With one voice which is wondrous, He giveth utterance to thoughts innumerable, That are received by audience of all sort, Each understanding them in his own way. In this wise among the assemblage, None is there but that enters upon Buddha-knowledge Such is Buddha’s miraculous power, Truly called “Incomprehensible.” --- REPENTANCE.[a06] Those who repent as prescribed by the Dharma, Altogether their earthly sins uproot; As fire on doomsday the world will consume, With its mountain peaks and infinite seas.