In terms of the eight resolve it was said:
To reach yet even greater virtue than before
These mighty beings enter the Immovable
Where they acquire irreversibility.
The bodhisattvas now enter Immovable, the eight bodhisattva ground where they become irreversible in order to achieve even greater virtue than previously. Concerning the attainment of even greater virtue than before, it is stated:
O sons of the Victor, it is just like an ocean-going ship. It needs to be dragged with much toil before it reaches the water, but as soon as it’s afloat it is propelled by the strength of the wind and no more effort is needed. The distance it can run across the ocean in a single day is infinitely longer than could be achieved in even a hundred years of dragging it across land. Likewise, O sons of the Victor, when bodhisattvas have gathered a great many roots of virtue in their practice of the Greater Vehicle, and then reach the ocean of bodhisattva activity, a single moment of spontaneous wisdom will take them infinitely closer to the wisdom of omniscience than all their previous effort could accomplish in a hundred thousand aeons.1
Their aspirations being fully pure, they are
Now roused from their cessation by victorious ones. (8.1)
The ten innumerable hundred thousand aspirations they made in the context of the first resolve, such as those expressed in the Ten Great Aspirations, now become completely purified, greatly increasing the present perfection of aspiration. But while the bodhisattvas on Immovable are defined as being on the ground of the heirs, they become regents on the ninth, and are crowned as wheel-turning monarchs on the tenth. So as the bodhisattvas on the Immovable ground have entered into cessation, the illustrious buddhas will then rouse them from this cessation.
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Chapter 1: Pramuditā
