Whatever Every Being Needs, Given Without End
This passage closes the long catalogue of specific gifts — wife, children, house, gardens, giving-assemblies, articles of daily life — with a single sweeping scene: beggars of every form and destiny stream in from the ten directions, and the bodhisattva's joy in meeting them outstrips every heavenly pleasure he could ever be offered instead, from Śakra's own happiness up through the Śuddhāvāsa Heaven at the very summit of form.
A Joy No Heaven Can Equal
Rather than another list of vows introduced by "may all sentient beings," this passage closes with ten short clauses of dedication strung together by "so that" — a plainer, more compressed form that reads almost like a summary of every vow that came before it, gathering the whole catalogue of gifts into a single final aim: the practices and vows of Samantabhadra, fulfilled.
「佛子！菩薩摩訶薩隨諸眾生一切所須，以如是等阿僧祇物而為給施；為令佛法相續不斷，大悲普救一切眾生；安住大慈，修菩薩行；於佛教誨終無違犯，以巧方便修行眾善，不斷一切諸佛種性；隨求悉與而無患厭，一切悉捨未曾中悔，常勤迴向一切智道。時，十方國土種種形類、種種趣生、種種福田，皆來集會，至菩薩所，種種求索。菩薩見已，普皆攝受；心生歡喜，如見善友；大悲哀愍，思滿其願；捨心增長，無有休息，亦不疲厭；隨其所求，悉令滿足，離貧窮苦。時，諸乞者心大欣慶，轉更稱傳，讚揚其德，美聲遐布，悉來歸往。菩薩見已，歡喜無量；假使百千億那由他劫受帝釋樂，無數劫受夜摩天樂，無量劫受兜率陀天樂，無邊劫受善變化天樂，無等劫受他化自在天樂，不可數劫受梵王樂，不可稱劫受轉輪王王三千樂，不可思劫受遍淨天樂，不可說劫受淨居天樂，悉不能及。菩薩摩訶薩見乞者來，歡喜愛樂，欣慶踊躍，信心增長，志樂清淨，諸根調順，信解成滿，乃至增進諸佛菩提。佛子！菩薩摩訶薩以此善根，為欲利益一切眾生故迴向，為欲安樂一切眾生故迴向，為令一切眾生得大義利故迴向，為令一切眾生悉得清淨故迴向，為令一切眾生悉求菩提故迴向，為令一切眾生悉得平等故迴向，為令一切眾生悉得賢善心故迴向，為令一切眾生悉入摩訶衍故迴向，為令一切眾生悉得賢善智慧故迴向，為令一切眾生悉具普賢菩薩行願滿十力乘現成正覺故迴向。
"Child of the Buddha! The bodhisattva mahāsattva, according to whatever all sentient beings need, provides for them with asaṃkhyeyas of such articles; so that the Buddha's own Dharma may continue without interruption, and with great compassion he universally rescues all sentient beings; abiding securely in great kindness, he cultivates the practice of a bodhisattva; never once transgressing the Buddha's own teaching, and with skillful means he cultivates every wholesome practice, never severing the seed-nature of any buddha; whatever is sought, he gives it entirely without any vexation or weariness, relinquishing everything entirely, never once regretting midway, forever diligently dedicating it toward the path of all-wisdom. At that time, from lands in the ten directions, beings of every kind of form, every kind of destiny of rebirth, and every kind of field of merit all come together and gather, arriving at the bodhisattva's place, seeking and requesting all manner of things. Having seen them, the bodhisattva receives them all universally; his mind gives rise to joy, as though seeing a good spiritual friend; with great compassion he grieves for and pities them, thinking only of fulfilling their wishes; his mind of relinquishment increases, without any rest, and never once wearying; whatever they seek, he causes it all to be fulfilled entirely, freeing them from the suffering of poverty. At that time, the mind of every beggar rejoices greatly, and word spreads all the more, praising and extolling his virtue, his fine reputation spreading far and wide, so that all come to take refuge with him. Having seen this, the bodhisattva's joy is immeasurable; even if, for hundreds of thousands of koṭis of nayutas of eons, he were to experience the happiness of Śakra; for innumerable eons, the happiness of the Yāma Heaven; for immeasurable eons, the happiness of the Tuṣita Heaven; for boundless eons, the happiness of the Nirmāṇarati Heaven; for incomparable eons, the happiness of the Paranirmita-vaśavartin Heaven; for uncountable eons, the happiness of Brahmā; for inexpressible eons, the happiness of a wheel-turning king ruling over a trichiliocosm; for inconceivable eons, the happiness of the Śubhakṛtsna Heaven; for indescribable eons, the happiness of the Śuddhāvāsa Heaven — none of it could compare to this. The bodhisattva mahāsattva, seeing beggars come, feels joy and fondness, rejoicing and leaping with delight, his faith increasing, his aspiration and joy becoming pure, his faculties becoming tamed and compliant, his faith and understanding brought to fulfillment, even advancing further toward the enlightenment of every buddha. Child of the Buddha! The bodhisattva mahāsattva, with this wholesome root, dedicates it so as to benefit all sentient beings; dedicates it so as to bring peace and happiness to all sentient beings; dedicates it so that all sentient beings may obtain great and meaningful benefit; dedicates it so that all sentient beings may become entirely pure; dedicates it so that all sentient beings may entirely seek enlightenment; dedicates it so that all sentient beings may attain complete equality; dedicates it so that all sentient beings may attain a wholesome and good mind; dedicates it so that all sentient beings may entirely enter the Great Vehicle; dedicates it so that all sentient beings may attain wholesome and good wisdom; dedicates it so that all sentient beings may fully possess the practices and vows of Samantabhadra, fulfill the vehicle of the ten powers, and manifest the accomplishment of true enlightenment.
The ascending list of heavens — Śakra, Yāma, Tuṣita, Nirmāṇarati, Paranirmita-vaśavartin, Brahmā, a wheel-turning king's own trichiliocosm, Śubhakṛtsna, and finally the Śuddhāvāsa Heaven at the summit of the form realm — traces nearly the entire cosmology of Buddhist heavens in a single breath, only to declare that none of it, however long sustained, can equal the plain joy of watching a beggar's need be met.
Part 325 Complete
This closes the long catalogue of gifts within the sixth dedication — wife, children, house, gardens, giving-assemblies, and every article of daily life, culminating in this scene of beggars gathered from every land. Chapter 25 continues in Part 326 as the bodhisattva reflects that these wholesome roots are dedicated entirely free of attachment and bondage — free of any notion of a being, a life, a person, a doer, or a receiver at all.