Forty Bodies

At that time, Good-Wealth saw this throne, surrounded further by measureless other thrones, and Lady Māyā, seated upon that throne, manifested a pure form-body before every being. Namely: the form-body that transcends the three realms, because it has gone beyond every destiny of existence; the form-body that accords with the mind's own delight, because it is unattached to anything in any world; the form-body that is universally pervasive, because it equals the very number of every being; the form-body without equal or comparison, because it causes every being to extinguish their inverted views; the form-body of measureless kinds, because it manifests in every kind of way according to the minds of every being; the form-body of boundless marks, because it universally manifests every kind of form and mark; the form-body universally manifesting before all, because it manifests with great sovereign freedom; the form-body that transforms into everything, because it appears before each according to what they are fit to receive; the form-body forever manifesting, because it is inexhaustible throughout the whole realm of beings; the form-body without going, because it is never extinguished in any destiny; the form-body without coming, because it never arises in any world; the form-body unborn, because it never arises at all; the form-body unceasing, because it is free of language; the form-body that is not real, because it attains true suchness; the form-body that is not empty, because it manifests according to the world; the form-body without motion, because it is forever free of birth and death; the form-body that cannot be destroyed, because the nature of dharmas cannot be destroyed; the form-body without any mark, because the path of language is cut off; the form-body of a single mark, because it takes no-mark as its very mark; the form-body like a reflection, because it manifests according to the mind; the form-body like an illusion, because it is born of illusion-like wisdom; the form-body like a mirage, because it is sustained only by conception; the form-body like a shadow, because it manifests birth according to vows; the form-body like a dream, because it manifests according to the mind; the form-body of the Dharma-realm, because its nature is pure like space; the form-body of great compassion, because it forever protects every being; the form-body without obstruction, because in thought after thought it pervades the whole Dharma-realm; the form-body without boundary, because it universally purifies every being; the form-body without measure, because it transcends every kind of language; the form-body without abode, because it vows to cross over every world; the form-body without any place, because it forever transforms beings without interruption; the form-body unarising, because it is accomplished through illusion-like vows; the form-body unsurpassed, because it transcends every world; the form-body of true suchness, because it manifests through a mind in samādhi; the form-body unborn, because it appears according to the karma of every being; the form-body like a wish-fulfilling jewel, because it universally satisfies the wishes of every being; the form-body without discrimination, because it arises only according to the discrimination of every being; the form-body free of discrimination, because no being is able to know it; the form-body inexhaustible, because it exhausts the very limit of every being's birth and death; and the form-body utterly pure, because it is the same as the tathāgata's own, without any distinction. A body such as this is not form, because every form and mark it has is like a reflected image; it is not feeling, because the world's own suffering-feeling has been extinguished to its very end; it is not perception, because it manifests only according to the perception of every being; it is not volitional formation, because it is accomplished in reliance on illusion-like karma; and it is apart from consciousness, because the bodhisattva's own wisdom of vows is empty and without any nature of its own, because the language of every being is cut off, and because it has already accomplished the body of quiescence.