Unrecognized in His Own City
Universal Practice reveals that his own disguise is total — moving through every clan and class of Tosala city in a form identical to whoever he is teaching, so convincingly that not one of them ever learns who he really is, before this same practice scales outward through all ninety-six heterodox groups of Jambudvīpa and beyond.
A Form No One Can Trace Back
Universal Practice's own disguise is not partial — he takes on a form identical to whoever he teaches, so completely that no being in Tosala city, however closely they listen, ever learns who he truly is or where he came from.
「又，善男子！此都薩羅城中，一切方所一切族類，若男若女諸人眾中，我皆以方便示同其形，隨其所應而為說法。諸眾生等，悉不能知我是何人、從何而至，唯令聞者如實修行。善男子！如於此城利益眾生，於閻浮提城邑聚落，所有人眾住止之處，悉亦如是而為利益。
"Moreover, good son, throughout this city of Tosala, in every place and among every clan, whether men or women, I always employ skillful means to manifest a form identical to their own, teaching them the dharma exactly as is fitting. None of these beings are ever able to know who I really am, or from where I have come — I only cause whoever hears me to practice truthfully according to reality. Good son, just as I benefit beings within this city, so too, in every city, town, and village of Jambudvīpa, wherever people dwell, I benefit them in just the same way.
Ninety-Six Groups, and Every World Beyond
The same anonymous teaching that fills a single city scales outward without limit — first to the ninety-six heterodox groups of Jambudvīpa, then to every continent, then to the entire trichiliocosm, and finally to every world throughout the ten directions.
「善男子！閻浮提內九十六眾，各起異見而生執著，我悉於中方便調伏，令其捨離所有諸見；如閻浮提，餘四天下亦復如是；如四天下，三千大千世界亦復如是；如三千大千世界，如是十方無量世界諸眾生海，我悉於中，隨諸眾生心之所樂，以種種方便、種種法門，現種種色身，以種種言音而為說法，令得利益。
"Good son, within Jambudvīpa there are ninety-six different groups, each giving rise to their own differing views and attachments — I tame them all through skillful means, causing them to abandon every one of their views; and just as in Jambudvīpa, so too in the remaining continents of the four; and just as in the four continents, so too throughout the great trichiliocosm; and just as throughout the great trichiliocosm, so too throughout the ocean of beings in measureless worlds in the ten directions — in all of them, according to each being's own wish, I manifest every kind of form through every kind of skillful means and every kind of dharma-gate, teaching the dharma through every kind of speech, causing them all to gain benefit.
閻浮提內九十六眾 — within Jambudvīpa there are ninety-six different groups. This number appears elsewhere in Buddhist literature as the traditional count of non-Buddhist schools of thought current in ancient India. Universal Practice's own claim is striking precisely because he does not exempt any of them from his teaching — every group, whatever its own view, receives the same disguised visit.
Part 1040 Complete
This continues chapter thirty-nine, 入法界品, in fascicle sixty-seven. Part 1041 follows Universal Practice naming his own liberation in full, before naming a twenty-second teacher and Good-Wealth's unusually detailed vow before departing.