Never Once False
Most Tranquil closes fascicle seventy-six with a liberation-gate built on a single claim — that speech held sincerely never leaves a bodhisattva's own vow unfulfilled — before sending Good-Wealth toward a youth and a maiden who share a single referral.
Never Once False
Fascicle seventy-six closes on its shortest and most quietly absolute claim yet — that a vow held in perfectly sincere speech never once fails, in any bodhisattva, across all three times.
婆羅門答言：「善男子！我得菩薩解脫，名：誠願語；過去、現在、未來菩薩，以是語故，乃至於阿耨多羅三藐三菩提，無有退轉，無已退、無現退、無當退。「善男子！我以住於誠願語故，隨意所作，莫不成滿。善男子！我唯知此誠語解脫。如諸菩薩摩訶薩，與誠願語，行止無違，言必以誠，未曾虛妄，無量功德因之出生；而我云何能知能說？「善男子！於此南方，有城名：妙意華門；彼有童子，名曰：德生；復有童女，名為：有德。汝詣彼問：菩薩云何學菩薩行、修菩薩道？」時，善財童子於法尊重，禮婆羅門足，遶無數匝，戀仰而去。
The brāhmaṇa answered, saying: "Good son! I have attained a bodhisattva's own liberation-gate, named True and Sincere Vow-Speech; every bodhisattva of the past, present, and future, because of this very speech, never retrogresses all the way to anuttara-samyak-sambodhi — none has ever retrogressed, none retrogresses now, and none will ever retrogress. Good son! Because I abide in this true and sincere vow-speech, whatever I set my mind to accomplish is never left unfulfilled. Good son! I know only this liberation-gate of sincere speech. As for the bodhisattva-mahāsattvas, whose every action and stillness never contradicts their own true and sincere vow-speech, whose every word is always spoken in sincerity and has never once been false, and from whom measureless merit is thereby brought forth — how could I possibly know, or possibly speak, of it? Good son! To the south of here, there is a city, named Wondrous Mind's Flower Gate; there is a youth there, named Virtue-Born; and there is also a maiden, named Possessing Virtue. Go to them, and ask: how does a bodhisattva study the bodhisattva's own practice, and cultivate the bodhisattva's own path?" At that time, Good-Wealth, honoring the Dharma, bowed at the brāhmaṇa's feet, circled him countless times, and departed, gazing upon him with longing and devotion.
無已退、無現退、無當退 — none has ever retrogressed, none retrogresses now, and none will ever retrogress. The claim spans all three times explicitly, one clause each for past, present, and future, leaving no possible moment for the exception the rest of the sentence already denies.
Fascicle Seventy-Six Complete
This completes chapter thirty-nine, 入法界品, and fascicle seventy-six of the Avataṃsaka Sūtra. Fascicle seventy-seven opens with the youth Virtue-Born and the maiden Possessing Virtue, the two teachers Most Tranquil names together in a single referral.