Never Entering Final Nirvāṇa
A bodhisattva brings the unsettled to rest and shows the settled the seat of awakening, all without ever dwelling in reality's ultimate limit or entering final nirvāṇa; the verse then measures buddha-bodies against the bodies of every sentient being, before tracing every differing world back to a differing conception in the mind, and closing on the name earned by such practice — Samantabhadra himself.
Bringing Beings to Rest Without Resting
A bodhisattva pervades the dharma-realm without attachment, settling the unsettled and revealing the seat of awakening to the settled, all while dwelling in neither the ultimate limit of reality nor final nirvāṇa itself.
諸佛甚深法，廣大深寂滅，甚深無量智，知甚深諸趣。
菩薩離迷倒，心淨常相續，巧以神通力，度無量眾生。
未安者令安，安者示道場，如是遍法界，其心無所著。
不住於實際，不入於涅槃，如是遍世間，開悟諸群生。
法數眾生數，了知而不著，普雨於法雨，充洽諸世間。
普於諸世界，念念成正覺，而修菩薩行，未曾有退轉。
The profound dharma of every buddha, vast and profoundly tranquil, is a profound and measureless wisdom that knows every profound destiny.
The bodhisattva, free of delusion and inversion, their mind pure and forever unbroken, skillfully uses spiritual power to deliver measureless sentient beings.
Those not yet settled they cause to be settled, and to those already settled they reveal the seat of awakening; pervading the dharma-realm in this way, their mind clings to nothing at all.
Not dwelling in the ultimate limit of reality, not entering final nirvāṇa, they pervade the world in this way, awakening the multitude of beings.
The categories of dharma and the categories of sentient beings, fully known yet clung to in nothing, they universally rain down the rain of dharma, saturating every world.
Universally, throughout every world, in thought after thought they attain perfect awakening, and yet cultivate bodhisattva practice without ever once retreating.
世間種種身，一切悉了知；如是知身法，則得諸佛身。
普知諸眾生，諸劫及諸剎，十方無涯際，智海無不入。
眾生身無量，一一為現身；佛身無有邊，智者悉觀見。
一念之所知，出現諸如來，經於無量劫，稱揚不可盡。
諸佛能現身，處處般涅槃，一念中無量，舍利各差別。
如是未來世，有求於佛果，無量菩提心，決定智悉知。
如是三世中，所有諸如來，一切悉能知，名住普賢行。
Every manner of body in the world is entirely and fully known; knowing the dharma of the body in this way, one thereby attains the body of every buddha.
Universally knowing every sentient being, every kalpa, and every land, the boundless reach of the ten directions is nowhere left unentered by the ocean of wisdom.
The bodies of sentient beings are measureless, and for each and every one a body is manifested; a buddha's body is without any boundary, and the wise entirely behold it.
What is known within a single thought brings forth every tathāgata; extolling this through measureless kalpas could still not exhaust it.
Every buddha is able to manifest a body, entering final nirvāṇa in every place; within a single thought, measureless relics, each and every one distinct.
And so it is in the future age, for those who seek the fruit of buddhahood; their measureless minds of awakening are entirely known by resolute wisdom.
And so it is throughout the three times, for every tathāgata there is; all of it can be entirely known — this is called dwelling in the practice of Samantabhadra.
如是分別知，無量諸行地，入於智慧處，其輪不退轉。
微妙廣大智，深入如來境，入已不退轉，說名普賢慧。
一切最勝尊，普入佛境界，修行不退轉，得無上菩提。
無量無邊心，各各差別業，皆由想積集，平等悉了知。
染污非染污，學心無學心，不可說諸心，念念中悉知。
了知非一二，非染亦非淨，亦復無雜亂，皆從自想起。
如是悉明見，一切諸眾生，心想各不同，起種種世間。
以如是方便，修諸最勝行，從佛法化生，得名為普賢。
Distinctly knowing in this way the measureless grounds of practice, entering into the place of wisdom, its wheel never retreats.
A subtle and vast wisdom, entering deeply into the tathāgata's own domain — once entered, never retreating — this is called the wisdom of Samantabhadra.
Every most excellent, honored one universally enters a buddha's own domain; their practice never retreating, they attain unsurpassed awakening.
Measureless, boundless minds, each with their own differing karma, all arise from the accumulation of conception, and all of it is equally and fully known.
Defiled and undefiled, the mind still learning and the mind beyond learning, every unspeakable mind — all of it is fully known in thought after thought.
Fully understanding that it is neither one nor two, neither defiled nor pure, and moreover without any confusion, all of it arises from one's own conception.
Seeing all of this with complete clarity: every sentient being's mind and conception differ each from the other, giving rise to every manner of differing world.
Through skillful means such as these, cultivating every most excellent practice, being born through transformation from the buddha-dharma itself — this is what earns the name Samantabhadra.
不住於實際，不入於涅槃 — not dwelling in the ultimate limit of reality, not entering final nirvāṇa. This couplet refuses both halves of a pair that might otherwise seem like a single destination: reality's own ultimate limit and final nirvāṇa are named separately and both declined, so that the bodhisattva's activity in the world depends on settling into neither — a double negation rather than a single renunciation.
Part 634 Complete
This continues chapter thirty-six, 普賢行品, in fascicle forty-nine. Part 635 continues the verse recitation with how false conception gives rise to heaven and hell alike, and a bodhisattva's vision of the world as a net woven of thought.