Light No Starlight Can Ever Eclipse

These two similes return to the sun and ocean, both already used extensively in the first catalogue, but here with a specific comparative target — the śrāvaka and pratyekabuddha's own light or force being explicitly named as unable to overcome bodhicitta's own. Fazang reads the sustained, repeated naming of these two lesser vehicles throughout this entire second catalogue (far more consistently than in the first) as reflecting a different rhetorical purpose: where the first catalogue mainly established what bodhicitta positively resembles, this second catalogue is more consistently oriented toward establishing bodhicitta's superiority relative to a specific, named alternative attainment already recognized as valuable in its own right.