The Verse Summary Begins
Having finished the prose, Samantabhadra restates the same ten acceptances as verse — opening with the joy of merely hearing where a treasure lies, moving through a treasury of true gold shaped into ornaments, and arriving at the gods of Trāyastriṃśa, who share a single vessel of food and taste something different each.
Like Finding a Treasure
The verse recap of the first acceptance, sound, opens on joy at merely hearing where something valuable is — before it is ever possessed.
爾時，普賢菩薩摩訶薩欲重宣其義而說頌言：「譬如世有人，聞有寶藏處，以其可得故，心生大歡喜。
如是大智慧，菩薩真佛子，聽聞諸佛法，甚深寂滅相。
聞此深法時，其心得安隱，不驚亦不怖，亦不生恐畏。
大士求菩提，聞斯廣大音，心淨能堪忍，於此無疑惑。
自念以聞此，甚深微妙法，當成一切智，人天大導師。
菩薩聞此音，其心大歡喜，發生堅固意，願求諸佛法。
以樂菩提故，其心漸調伏，令信益增長，於法無違謗。
是故聞此音，其心得堪忍，安住而不動，修行菩薩行。
為求菩提故，專行向彼道，精進無退轉，不捨眾善軛。
以求菩提故，其心無恐畏，聞法增勇猛，供佛令歡喜。」
At that time, Samantabhadra Bodhisattva-mahāsattva, wishing to restate this meaning, spoke in verse: "It is like a person in the world who hears there is a place with a treasure-store; because it can be obtained, their heart gives rise to great joy.
Just so, with great wisdom, the bodhisattva, a true child of the Buddha, hears the buddhas' own dharma — its mark, profound and still.
When hearing this profound dharma, their heart attains peace; not startled, not frightened, nor does fear arise.
The great being, seeking bodhi, hears this vast sound; their mind, pure, is able to accept it, without any doubt in this.
They reflect: having heard this profound and subtle dharma, they shall become all-knowing wisdom, the great guide of devas and humans.
The bodhisattva, hearing this sound, their heart greatly rejoices; giving rise to a firm resolve, they vow to seek the dharma of every buddha.
Because they delight in bodhi, their mind gradually becomes tamed; causing faith to increase further, they never contradict or slander the dharma.
Therefore, hearing this sound, their heart attains acceptance; abiding securely, unmoving, they cultivate the bodhisattva practice.
For the sake of seeking bodhi, they single-mindedly proceed toward that path; diligent, never regressing, never abandoning the yoke of every wholesome deed.
Because they seek bodhi, their heart knows no fear; hearing the dharma increases their courage, and making offerings to buddhas brings them joy."
譬如世有人，聞有寶藏處，以其可得故，心生大歡喜 — it is like a person in the world who hears there is a place with a treasure-store; because it can be obtained, their heart gives rise to great joy. The very first image of the whole verse summary is joy at a location merely reported, not yet reached. It matches the prose definition of the first acceptance exactly: what makes a bodhisattva unshaken by the dharma's sound is not that he already holds what it points to, but that he trusts it can be reached at all.
One Vessel, Many Tastes
The verse moves to the second acceptance, compliance, through a different image — gold already found and shaped — before a parable about the gods of Trāyastriṃśa turns toward the third.
「如有大福人，獲得真金藏，隨身所應服，造作莊嚴具。
菩薩亦如是，聞此甚深義，思惟增智海，以修隨順法。
法有亦順知，法無亦順知，隨彼法如是，如是知諸法。
成就清淨心，明徹大歡喜，知法從緣起，勇猛勤修習。
平等觀諸法，了知其自性，不違佛法藏，普覺一切法。
志樂常堅固，嚴淨佛菩提，不動如須彌，一心求正覺。
以發精進意，復修三昧道，無量劫勤行，未曾有退失。
菩薩所入法，是佛所行處，於此能了知，其心無厭怠。
如無等所說，平等觀諸法，非不平等忍，能成平等智。
隨順佛所說，成就此忍門，如法而了知，亦不分別法。
三十三天中，所有諸天子，共同一器食，所食各不同。
所食種種食，不從十方來，如其所修業，自然咸在器。」
"It is like a person of great merit who obtains a treasury of true gold; according to what befits them, they fashion it into ornaments to wear.
The bodhisattva is likewise: hearing this profound meaning, their contemplation increases the ocean of wisdom, cultivating the dharma of compliance.
Whether a dharma exists, they know it in compliance; whether a dharma does not exist, they know it in compliance; according to how that dharma truly is, thus do they know all dharmas.
Accomplishing a pure mind, clear and greatly joyful, knowing that dharma arises from conditions, they diligently and courageously cultivate.
Observing all dharmas equally, fully knowing their own-nature, never contradicting the treasury of the buddha-dharma, they universally awaken to every dharma.
Their resolve and delight ever firm, they adorn and purify the buddha's bodhi; unmoving like Mount Sumeru, with a single mind they seek perfect awakening.
Having given rise to a diligent resolve, they further cultivate the path of samādhi; through measureless kalpas of diligent practice, they never once regress or lose ground.
The dharma the bodhisattva enters is the very place a buddha moves through; fully comprehending this, their heart knows no weariness or idleness.
As the Peerless One has taught, observing all dharmas equally — it is not that there is no acceptance of equality — they are able to accomplish the wisdom of equality.
Complying with what the Buddha has taught, they accomplish this gateway of acceptance; knowing in accordance with the dharma, yet without discriminating among dharmas.
Among the gods of the Thirty-Three, all the sons of the gods share a single vessel of food, yet what each one tastes differs.
The manifold foods they eat do not come from the ten directions; according to the karma each has cultivated, it naturally all appears within the vessel."
三十三天中，所有諸天子，共同一器食，所食各不同 — among the gods of the Thirty-Three, all the sons of the gods share a single vessel of food, yet what each one tastes differs. A classic parable, one vessel and many private tastes, arriving right at the seam between the second acceptance and the third. It sets up exactly what the acceptance of non-arising will need next: a single, undivided thing that nonetheless appears differently to each observer, without anything having to travel between them to explain the difference.
Part 562 Complete
This continues chapter twenty-nine, 十忍品, The Ten Kinds of Acceptance, in fascicle forty-four. Part 563 continues the verse summary into the third acceptance, non-arising, applying the shared-vessel parable directly: all dharmas arise from conditions, and because nothing has arisen, nothing can be lost.