Mother of Every Bodhisattva
Māyā manifests forms that surpass every world according to what each being's own heart desires, and a long catalogue of her own virtues keeps returning to the same image — an ocean — before closing on the vow that names what she has been all along.
Mother of Every Bodhisattva
Where the last Part named forty bodies she already has, this one shows what she does with them — surpassing every world a being might desire, and gathering every virtue a bodhisattva could need.
爾時，善財童子又見摩耶夫人，隨諸眾生心之所樂，現超過一切世間色身。所謂：或現超過他化自在天女身乃至超過四大天王天女身，或現超過龍女身乃至超過人女身，現如是等無量色身，饒益眾生。集一切智助道之法，行於平等檀波羅蜜，大悲普覆一切世間。出生如來無量功德，修習增長一切智心，觀察思惟諸法實性；獲深忍海，具眾定門，住於平等三昧境界，得如來定圓滿光明，銷竭眾生煩惱巨海；心常正定，未嘗動亂，恒轉清淨不退法輪，善能了知一切佛法，恒以智慧觀法實相；見諸如來心無厭足，知三世佛出興次第，見佛三昧常現在前，了達如來出現於世無量無數諸清淨道，行於諸佛虛空境界；普攝眾生，各隨其心，教化成就；入佛無量清淨法身，成就大願，淨諸佛剎，究竟調伏一切眾生，心恒遍入諸佛境界；出生菩薩自在神力，已得法身清淨無染，而恒示現無量色身；摧一切魔力，成大善根力，出生正法力，具足諸佛力，得諸菩薩自在之力，速疾增長一切智力；得佛智光，普照一切，悉知無量眾生心海、根性、欲解種種差別；其身普遍十方剎海，悉知諸剎成壞之相，以廣大眼見十方海，以周遍智知三世海，身普承事一切佛海，心恒納受一切法海；修習一切如來功德，出生一切菩薩智慧，常樂觀察一切菩薩從初發心乃至成就所行之道，常勤守護一切眾生，常樂稱揚諸佛功德，願為一切菩薩之母。
At that time, Good-Wealth once again saw Lady Māyā, according to whatever each being's own heart delighted in, manifest form-bodies that surpassed every world. Namely: sometimes she manifested a form surpassing the goddesses of the Paranirmita-vaśavartin Heaven, down even to a form surpassing the goddesses of the Four Great Heavenly Kings; sometimes she manifested a form surpassing nāga-women, down even to a form surpassing human women — manifesting measureless form-bodies such as these, bringing benefit to every being. She gathers every dharma that assists the path to all-knowing wisdom, practices the pāramitā of giving with perfect equality, and with great compassion universally covers every world. She gives rise to the tathāgata's own measureless merit, cultivates and increases the mind of all-knowing wisdom, and contemplates and reflects on the true nature of every dharma; she attains an ocean of profound forbearance, is endowed with every gate of concentration, abides in the domain of equal samādhi, attains the perfect and complete light of the tathāgata's own samādhi, and dries up the vast ocean of every being's own affliction; her mind is forever in right concentration, never once disturbed or agitated, forever turning the pure and non-regressing Dharma-wheel, skillfully able to understand every buddha-dharma, and forever contemplating the true nature of every dharma through wisdom; she beholds every tathāgata with a mind never wearied, knows the sequence in which every buddha across the three periods of time appears, forever keeps the samādhi of seeing the buddha directly before her, thoroughly understands the measureless, countless pure paths by which the tathāgata appears in the world, and moves through the very domain of every buddha's own empty space; she universally gathers in every being, teaching and transforming each according to their own mind, bringing them to accomplishment; she enters the buddha's own measureless and pure Dharma-body, accomplishes her great vows, purifies every buddha-land, ultimately tames every being, and her mind forever pervades the very domain of every buddha; she gives rise to the bodhisattva's own sovereign spiritual power, having already attained a Dharma-body pure and undefiled, while forever manifesting measureless form-bodies; she crushes the power of every Māra, accomplishes the power of great wholesome roots, gives rise to the power of the true Dharma, is fully endowed with the power of every buddha, attains the sovereign power of every bodhisattva, and swiftly increases the power of all-knowing wisdom; she attains the buddha's own light of wisdom, universally illumining everything, and knows entirely the ocean of every being's own mind, their every kind of distinct faculty, nature, and understanding of desire; her body universally pervades the ocean of lands throughout the ten directions, and she knows entirely the marks of every land's own formation and dissolution; through a vast and expansive eye she beholds the ocean of the ten directions, through all-pervading wisdom she knows the ocean of the three periods of time, her body universally serves the ocean of every buddha, and her mind forever receives the ocean of every dharma; she cultivates the merit of every tathāgata, gives rise to the wisdom of every bodhisattva, forever delights in contemplating the path every bodhisattva practices from their very first arising of the mind of bodhi all the way to its accomplishment, forever diligently protects every being, forever delights in extolling the merit of every buddha, and vows to become the mother of every bodhisattva.
獲深忍海⋯身普承事一切佛海，心恒納受一切法海 — she attains an ocean of profound forbearance⋯her body universally serves the ocean of every buddha, and her mind forever receives the ocean of every dharma. The word 海, ocean, recurs eight times across this single passage — forbearance, affliction, the minds of every being, the lands of the ten directions, the ten directions again, the three periods of time, every buddha, and every dharma — as if no vessel smaller than an ocean could ever hold what each of these qualities actually contains.
Part 1238 Complete
This continues chapter thirty-nine, 入法界品, in fascicle seventy-six. Part 1239 follows Good-Wealth as he mirrors Māyā's own countless forms, enters samādhi, and finally asks her the question this entire meeting was for.