16. Caritalakṣaṇa
How then, son of good family, does the bodhisatva know1
the essential character of behaviour of all living beings (sarvasatvacaritalakṣaṇa)?
There, son of good family, are eighty-four thousand kinds of behaviour of living beings (caturaśītisatvacaritasahasra), and these are the basic words of a summary (mūloddānapada).
The behaviour of all living beings, which is immeasureable (sarvasatvacaritāpramāṇa), unthinkable (acintya), and ineffable (anabhilāpya), is known by the knowledge of a Buddha (buddhajñāna), but not by the knowledge of the disciples, the isolated buddhas (śrāvakapratyekabuddhajñāna), or the knowledge of bodhisatva (bodhisatvajñāna).
Thus the bodhisatva penetrates the essential character of behaviour of all living beings (sarvasatvacaritalakṣaṇānupraveśa) through the presence of the Buddhas (buddhādhiṣṭhāna) and his own knowledge (ātmajñāna).
The behaviour’s essence (svabhāva), essential character (lakṣaṇa), the essential character of cause (hetulakṣaṇa), the essential character of condition (pratyayalakṣaṇa), the essential character of productive cause (karaṇahetulakṣaṇa), the essential character of combination (sāmagrīlakṣaṇa), the essential character of difference (nānātvalakṣaṇa), the essential character of discordance (vilakṣaṇa), the essential character of passion (rāgalakṣaṇa), the essential character of aversion (dveṣalakṣaṇa), the essential character of delusion (mohalakṣaṇa), the essential character of the three together (sabhāgalakṣaṇa), the essential character of hell-beings (nirayalakṣaṇa), the animal world (tiryagyonilakṣaṇa), the essential character of the world of the lord of death (yamalokalakṣaṇa), the essential character of gods (devalakṣaṇa), the essential character of human being (manuṣyalakṣaṇa), the essential character of the entrance into the fixed course of disciples (śrāvakaniyāmāvakranti), the essential character of the entrance into the fixed course of isolated buddhas (pratyekabuddhaniyāmalakṣaṇa), the essential character of the entrance into the fixed course of the buddhas (buddhaniyāmalakṣaṇa), the essential character of distant cause, the essential character of intermediate cause (anantaryalakṣaṇa), and the essential character of immediate cause - he knows all the essential characters of behaviour truly as they are (yathābhūtaṃ prajānāti), and there is no fault at all (anavadya) in his understanding (sarvajñāna).
rigs kyi bu de la ji ltar na byaṅ chub sems dpa’ sems can thams cad kyi spyod pa’i (4) mtshan ñid daṅ chog śes pa gaṅ yin źe na |
rigs kyi bu sems can rnams kyi spyod pa ni brgyad khri bźi stoṅ ste | ’di ni sdom gyi rtsa ba’i tshig go ||
gaṅ yaṅ sems can thams cad kyi spyod pa tshad med pa bsam gyis mi khyab pa brjod du med pa de saṅs rgyas kyi ye śes kyis (5) mkhyen te | ñan thos daṅ raṅ saṅs rgyas kyi ye śes kyis mi rig | byaṅ chub sems dpa’i ye śes kyis mi rig pa
de la byaṅ chub sems dpa’ saṅs rgyas kyi byin gyi rlabs daṅ | raṅ gi śes pas sems can thams cad kyi spyod pa’i mtshan ñid kyi rjes su rab tu ’jug ste |
(6) spyod pa de’i gaṅ ṅo bo ñid dam | gaṅ mtshan ñid kyaṅ ruṅ ste | rgyu’i mtshan ñid dam | rkyen gyi mtshan ñid dam | byed rgyu’i mtshan ñid dam | tshogs pa’i mtshan ñid dam | tha dad pa’i mtsham ñid dam | mi ’dra ba’i mtshan ñid dam | ’dod chags kyi mtshan ñid dam | źe (7) sdaṅ gi mtshan ñid dam | gti mug gi mtshan ñid dam | skal ba mñam pa’i matsana ñid dam | sems can dmyal ba’i mtshan ñid dam | dud ’gro’i skye gnas kyi mtshan ñid dam | gśin rje’i ’jig rten gyi mtshan ñid dam | lha’i mtshan ñid dam | mi’i mtshan ñid dam | (267a1) ñan thos kyi ṅes par gyur pa’i mtshan ñid dam | raṅ saṅs rgyas kyi ṅes par gyur pa’i mtshan ñid dam | saṅs rgyas kyi ṅes par gyur pa’i mtshan ñid dam | raṅ po’i rgyu’i mtshan ñid dam | bar ma’i rgyu’i mtshan ñid dam | ñe ba’i rgyu’i mtshan ñid kyaṅ ruṅ ste | (2) spyod pa de dag thams cad kyi mtshan ñid yaṅ dag pa ji lta ba bźin du rab tu śes te ye śes thams cad la kha na ma tho ba med pa yin no ||