The Great Lion's Roar
Having purified the perfections, a bodhisattva teaches every kind of living being exactly what fits their state — greed, anger, fixed views, the three realms, the two vehicles — and the chapter recalls the vow spoken like a lion's roar at the very moment they first gave rise to the resolve.
Teaching Every Realm and Every Vehicle
「佛子！菩薩如是清淨諸波羅蜜時、圓滿諸波羅蜜時、不捨諸波羅蜜時，住大莊嚴菩薩乘中。隨其所念，一切眾生皆為說法，令增淨業而得度脫。墮惡道者，教使發心；在難中者，令勤精進；多貪眾生，示無貪法；多瞋眾生，令行平等；著見眾生，為說緣起；欲界眾生，教離欲恚惡不善法；色界眾生，為其宣說毘鉢舍那；無色界眾生，為其宣說微妙智慧；二乘之人，教寂靜行；樂大乘者，為說十力廣大莊嚴。如其往昔初發心時，見無量眾生墮諸惡道，大師子吼作如是言：『我當以種種法門，隨其所應而度脫之！』菩薩具足如是智慧，廣能度脫一切眾生。」
"Son of the Buddha! When the bodhisattva purifies the perfections in this way, perfects the perfections, and never once lets go of the perfections, they abide within the great and vastly adorned bodhisattva vehicle. In accordance with whatever they hold in mind, they teach the Dharma to every living being, causing them to increase their pure karma and attain liberation. For those who have fallen into the evil destinies, they teach them to give rise to the resolve; for those caught within calamity, they cause them to be diligent; for living beings of much greed, they show them the dharma of freedom from greed; for living beings of much anger, they cause them to practice equanimity; for living beings attached to fixed views, they teach them dependent origination; for living beings of the desire-realm, they teach them to leave behind desire, hatred, and every evil and unwholesome dharma; for living beings of the form-realm, they expound insight-meditation for them; for living beings of the formless realm, they expound a subtle and wondrous wisdom for them; for people of the two vehicles, they teach them the practice of tranquility; for those who delight in the Mahāyāna, they teach them the vast and expansive adornment of the ten powers. Just as, in ages past, at the moment they first gave rise to the mind, seeing immeasurable living beings fallen into the evil destinies, they roared the great lion's roar, speaking these very words: 'I shall, through every kind of Dharma-gate, save and liberate them in accordance with what fits them!' The bodhisattva, fully endowed with such wisdom as this, is broadly able to save and liberate every living being."
This passage reaches back explicitly to the moment the bodhisattva first gave rise to the resolve — the very subject of chapter seventeen, many Parts ago — and shows what that resolve looked like from the inside: not a quiet inner decision but a lion's roar, spoken in the presence of beings already seen falling into the evil destinies. Everything the chapter has since described — non-negligence, the perfections, the treasuries — is framed here as simply the working-out, over time, of that one original vow.
Part 110 Complete
This closes Part 110. Chapter 18 continues in Part 111.