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　　「善男子！我唯知此无尽福德藏解脱门。如诸菩萨摩诃萨一切功德，犹如大海甚深无尽，犹如虚空广大无际，如如意珠满众生愿，如大聚落所求皆得，如须弥山普集众宝，犹如奥藏常贮法财，犹如明灯破诸黑闇，犹如高盖普荫群生；而我云何能知能说彼功德行？

　Then Prabhuta said to Sudhana, “I know this enlightening liberation, which is an inexhaustible treasury of manifestations of good; how can I know the practice or tell the virtues of enlightening beings whose goodness is inexhaustible because of the endlessness of the ocean of good, who are like the sky in that they have produced a vast store of good, who are like wish-fulfilling jewels in that they fulfill the wishes of all sentient beings, who are mountains of good because they protect the roots of goodness of all beings, who are great clouds of good as they shower jewel rain on all beings, who are superintendents of the great treasury of good in that they open the door of the city that they dispel the darkness of destitution for all sentient beings?

　　「善男子！我唯知此一切工巧大神通智光明法门。如诸菩萨摩诃萨，能知一切诸众生数，能知一切诸法品类数，能知一切诸法差别数，能知一切三世数，能知一切众生名数，能知一切诸法名数，能知一切诸如来数，能知一切诸佛名数，能知一切诸菩萨数，能知一切菩萨名数；而我何能说其功德，示其所行，显其境界，赞其胜力，辨其乐欲，宣其助道，彰其大愿，叹其妙行，阐其诸度，演其清净，发其殊胜智慧光明？

　“I know this light of knowledge of enlightening beings which is characterized by higher knowledge of all arts and sciences. How can I know the practice, tell of the virtues, indicate the range, show the sphere, describe the power, show the will, elucidate the preparation, explain the commitment, show the conduct, illumine the purity of transcendent ways, expound the purity of accomplishment, tell of the sphere of concentration, or approach the light of knowledge of the enlightening beings who know the number of all worlds, who know the number of all modes of spiritual practice, who know the number of pasts, presents, and futures, who know the number of all sentient beings, who know the number of all bodies of doctrine, who know the number of enlightenments of all buddhas, and who command the wheel of names of all the teachings?”