| yang rab ’byor rigs kyi bu’am | rigs kyi bu mo gang gis stong gsum gyi stong chen po’i ’jig rten gyi khams na sa’i rdul rnams ji snyed yod pa de dag ’di lta ste dper na rdul phra rab kyi tshogs bzhin du phye mar byas na | rab ’byor ’di ji snyam du sems | rdul phra rab kyi tshogs de mang ba yin nam |
rab ’byor gyis gsol pa | bcom ldan ’das de de lta lags te | rdul phra rab kyi tshogs de mang ba lags so |
| de ci’i slad du zhe na | bcom ldan ’das gal te tshogs shig mchis par gyur na | bcom ldan ’das kyis rdul phra rab kyi tshogs zhes bka’ mi stsol ba’i slad du’o |
| de ci’i slad du zhe na | bcom ldan ’das kyis rdul phra rab kyi tshogs zhes gang gsungs pa de tshogs ma mchis par de bzhin gshegs pas gsungs pa’i slad du ste | des na rdul phra rab kyi tshogs zhes bgyi’o |
“If, however, some gentleman or lady were to take as many world-systems as there are dust-particles of earth in the trigalactic megagalactic world-system, Subhūti, and grind them to powder, so that they were like, say, a pile of the most minute atoms, what do you think, Subhūti? Would that pile of the most minute atoms be considerable?”
He said, “Quite so, Lord, that pile of the most minute atoms would be considerable.
Why is that? If, Lord, there were a pile, the Lord would not say ‘pile of the most minute atoms.’
Why is that? Any pile of the most minute atoms which has been preached has been preached as pile-less by the Lord. That is why it is called ‘a pile of the most minute atoms.’