The Litany Completes
The chain begun in Part 573 continues without a break — eighty more clauses, moving from knowing the nature of beings, through taming, teaching, and dhāraṇī, to a closing line on compassion for the world that answers the great compassion the litany opened with.
From Knowing Beings to Compassion for the World
The single sentence continues from where Part 573 left it — the same unbroken grammar, the same refrain, now closing on a plea of sorrow for the world rather than an opening declaration of compassion.
了知眾生不可說,知其種性不可說,知其業報不可說,知其心行不可說,知其根性不可說,知其解欲不可說,雜染清淨不可說,觀察調伏不可說,變化自在不可說,現種種身不可說,修行精進不可說,度脫眾生不可說,示現神變不可說,放大光明不可說,種種色相不可說,令眾生淨不可說,一一毛孔不可說,放光明網不可說,光網現色不可說,普照佛剎不可說,勇猛無畏不可說,方便善巧不可說,調伏眾生不可說,令出生死不可說,清淨身業不可說,清淨語業不可說,無邊意業不可說,殊勝妙行不可說,成就智寶不可說,深入法界不可說,菩薩總持不可說,善能修學不可說,智者音聲不可說,音聲清淨不可說,正念真實不可說,開悟眾生不可說,具足威儀不可說,清淨修行不可說,成就無畏不可說,調伏世間不可說,諸佛子眾不可說,清淨勝行不可說,稱歎諸佛不可說,讚揚無盡不可說,世間導師不可說,演說讚歎不可說,彼諸菩薩不可說,清淨功德不可說,彼諸邊際不可說,能住其中不可說,住中智慧不可說,盡諸劫住無能說,欣樂諸佛不可說,智慧平等不可說,善入諸法不可說,於法無礙不可說,三世如空不可說,三世智慧不可說,了達三世不可說,住於智慧不可說,殊勝妙行不可說,無量大願不可說,清淨大願不可說,成就菩提不可說,諸佛菩提不可說,發生智慧不可說,分別義理不可說,知一切法不可說,嚴淨佛剎不可說,修行諸力不可說,長時修習不可說,一念悟解不可說,諸佛自在不可說,廣演正法不可說,種種神力不可說,示現世間不可說,清淨法輪不可說,勇猛能轉不可說,種種開演不可說,哀愍世間不可說。
Thoroughly knowing sentient beings is unspeakable; knowing their spiritual natures is unspeakable; knowing their karmic retributions is unspeakable; knowing their mental conduct is unspeakable; knowing their faculties and natures is unspeakable; knowing their understanding and desires is unspeakable; their defilement and their purity are unspeakable; observing and taming them is unspeakable; mastery over transformation is unspeakable; manifesting every manner of body is unspeakable; cultivating diligence is unspeakable; delivering and liberating beings is unspeakable; displaying spiritual transformations is unspeakable; emitting great light is unspeakable; every manner of form and color is unspeakable; causing beings to become pure is unspeakable; each and every pore is unspeakable; emitting a net of light is unspeakable; that net of light manifesting colors is unspeakable; universally illuminating every buddha-land is unspeakable; valiant fearlessness is unspeakable; skillful means is unspeakable; taming beings is unspeakable; causing them to leave birth and death is unspeakable; the purity of bodily action is unspeakable; the purity of verbal action is unspeakable; boundless mental action is unspeakable; surpassingly wondrous practice is unspeakable; accomplishing the jewel of wisdom is unspeakable; deeply entering the dharma-realm is unspeakable; the bodhisattva's total retention is unspeakable; skillfully cultivating and learning is unspeakable; the wise one's voice is unspeakable; the purity of that voice is unspeakable; true right mindfulness is unspeakable; awakening beings is unspeakable; being fully endowed with dignified bearing is unspeakable; pure cultivation is unspeakable; accomplishing fearlessness is unspeakable; taming the world is unspeakable; the multitude of every child of the buddha is unspeakable; pure and supreme practice is unspeakable; extolling every buddha is unspeakable; praising without end is unspeakable; every guide of the world is unspeakable; expounding praise is unspeakable; their every bodhisattva is unspeakable; pure merit is unspeakable; their every limit is unspeakable; being able to abide within it is unspeakable; the wisdom of abiding there is unspeakable; abiding there through every kalpa, none could ever tell it; delighting joyfully in every buddha is unspeakable; the equality of wisdom is unspeakable; skillfully entering every dharma is unspeakable; being unobstructed with regard to dharma is unspeakable; the three times being like space is unspeakable; wisdom of the three times is unspeakable; thoroughly comprehending the three times is unspeakable; abiding in wisdom is unspeakable; surpassingly wondrous practice is unspeakable; measureless great vows are unspeakable; pure great vows are unspeakable; accomplishing bodhi is unspeakable; the bodhi of every buddha is unspeakable; giving rise to wisdom is unspeakable; distinguishing meaning and principle is unspeakable; knowing every dharma is unspeakable; adorning and purifying every buddha-land is unspeakable; cultivating every power is unspeakable; practicing for a long time is unspeakable; awakening to understanding in a single thought-moment is unspeakable; the mastery of every buddha is unspeakable; broadly expounding the true dharma is unspeakable; every manner of spiritual power is unspeakable; manifesting within the world is unspeakable; the pure dharma-wheel is unspeakable; the valiant ability to turn it is unspeakable; every manner of exposition is unspeakable; and compassion for the world is unspeakable.
哀愍世間不可說 — compassion for the world is unspeakable. This closes a single sentence that began in Part 573 with "the bodhisattva, with such great compassion, benefits every world," a hundred and fifty-eight clauses earlier. The litany does not build toward a climax or resolve into a summary; it simply returns, on its last clause, to the same compassion it opened with — closing the circle rather than concluding an argument.
Part 574 Complete
This continues chapter thirty, 阿僧祇品, in fascicle forty-five. Part 575 returns to shorter verse, following the ineffable kalpas spent praising a single tathāgata's virtue.