Now, in terms of the seventh resolve it was said:
On Far Progressed the bodhisattvas can engage
Cessation in each moment, and they now attain
A brilliant perfection in their skilful means. (7.1)
To engage cessation refers to entering into the state of the final goal, meaning cessation into ultimate reality where all mental elaboration ceases. The bodhisattvas on the seventh ground, Far Progressed, now enter into the cessation they achieved on the sixth ground in each moment. As stated:
O heirs of the Victor, from the sixth bodhisattva ground onwards they settle within the state of cessation of bodhisattvas. In each moment of mind the bodhisattvas established on this seventh bodhisattva ground enter into and emerge from the state of cessation, but this cannot be described as the definitive experience of cessation.1
Their perfection of skilful means is also utterly purified.
It should be taken into consideration that skilful means, aspiration, power and wisdom are in fact particular aspects of intelligence (prajñā) itself, and that in the context of the perfection of intelligence it is solely the intelligence of analytical investigation that is dealt with, and not the others.