Right Mindfulness Never Lost
The three groups of precepts made entirely pure and great compassion extending without any obstruction lead directly into Samantabhadra's own aside: he speaks of all this only in small part, and even exhausting countless kalpas could not tell it in full — what he has spoken so far is like a single mote of dust taken from the great earth.
A Single Mote of Dust from the Great Earth
Samantabhadra pauses his own verse here to name its scale honestly: even exhausting countless kalpas could never finish telling this practice, and what he has spoken so far amounts to a single mote of dust taken from the whole of the great earth — not a rhetorical flourish but a literal measure of how much remains unsaid.
無謬無違道，亦不失正念，
精進欲三昧，觀慧無損減。
三聚皆清淨，三世悉明達，
大慈愍眾生，一切無障礙。
由入此法門，得成如是行，
我說其少分，功德莊嚴義。
窮於無數劫，說彼行無盡，
我今說少分，如大地一塵。」
"Without error and without transgressing the path, likewise never losing right mindfulness; diligence and the wish for samādhi, observing wisdom without any diminishment or loss.
The three groups of precepts are all made pure, the three times are all fully understood; great compassion has pity for sentient beings, and in all of this there is no obstruction at all.
Because of entering this dharma-gate, such practice as this is accomplished; I speak of it only in small part — the meaning of this merit's own adornment.
Exhausting countless kalpas, that practice could still never be told in full; what I speak of now is only a small part, like a single mote of dust from the great earth."
依於佛智住，起於奇特想，
修行最勝行，具足大慈悲。
精勤自安隱，教化諸含識，
安住淨戒中，具諸授記行。
Relying on and abiding in the buddha's own wisdom, giving rise to an extraordinary aspiration, cultivating the most excellent practice, complete in great compassion.
Diligent and at peace within himself, teaching and transforming every sentient being, abiding securely within pure precepts, complete in every practice that leads to receiving a prophecy.
窮於無數劫，說彼行無盡，我今說少分，如大地一塵 — exhausting countless kalpas, that practice could still never be told in full; what I speak of now is only a small part, like a single mote of dust from the great earth. Coming after two full fascicles built entirely from ten-part lists, this line reframes everything already spoken as itself the small part — a single mote of dust standing for an earth of teaching that remains, by the speaker's own account, untold.
Part 819 Complete
This continues chapter thirty-eight, 離世間品, in fascicle fifty-nine. Part 820 continues the verse, moving from entering every buddha's own merit, every sentient being's own conduct, and every land, to the differentiated wisdom of total retention and thought free of any comparison at all.