By Kubo, Tsugunari; Yuyama, Akira; Kumarajiva (Translators)
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A bodhisattva named Varaprabha was there with his eight hundred disciples. At that time the Buddha Candrasūryapradīpa, having emerged from samādhi, remained sitting for sixty intermediate kalpas and revealed to Bodhisattva Varaprabha the Mahayana sutra called Saddharmapuṇḍarīka, the White Lotus of the Marvelous Law (hereafter Lotus Sutra), which was the instruction for bodhisattvas and the treasured lore of the buddhas. The assembly also sat there undisturbed in body and mind listening to the Buddha’s exposition for sixty intermediate kalpas as if only a single mealtime had passed; during that time not a single person among them experienced fatigue of body or mind.
They are attached to the desires of the five senses, Disordered by delusion and passion, And have fallen into the three troubled states of being Because of these desires. They are wandering through The six transmigratory states, Tormented by every kind of suffering. They are continually being born as tiny embryos In one world after another. These people of few qualities and little merit Are afflicted by various sufferings. ” They are so firmly and deeply attached to false teachings That they cannot get rid of them.
He paid homage to all these buddhas And having practiced the great path after them, Acquired all the six perfections and Now meets the Lion of the Śākyas. He shall subsequently become a buddha called Maitreya Who will extensively bring Innumerable sentient beings to the path. After the parinirvāṇa of that Buddha Candrasūryapradīpa, The lazy one was none other than you; And the expounder of the Dharma, Varaprabha, Was no one but myself. When I saw the Buddha Dīpaṃkara He also revealed this marvel of light.