Their mind [set] on accomplishing [beneficial] activity<br>Is perpetually blazing like fire,<br>While always being immersed in<br>The absorption of the dhyāna of peace. +
Through the power of the continuing force of previous [actions]<br>And through being free from all conceptions,<br>They do not [need to] make any efforts<br>For the sake of maturing living beings. +
Knowing who is to be guided in which way by what,<br>They [guide] those [beings] in just that way<br>Through teaching, the rūpakāyas,<br>[Various forms of] conduct, and [daily] behaviors. +
In that way, without any effort<br>And with unobscured intelligence,<br>They always engage in the welfare of sentient beings<br>In this world that reaches to the limits of space. +
[Actually,] however, the difference<br>Between bodhisattvas and a buddha<br>Is the difference between a particle and the earth<br>Or between [the water in] the hoofprint of an ox and the ocean. +
[The tathāgata element] is of unchanging character because it is has the nature of being inexhaustible.<br>It is the refuge of the world because it has no end in time.<br>It is always nondual because it is nonconceptual.<br>It also has the nature of indestructibility because its nature is to be uncreated. +
It is power because it overcomes suffering<br>And the afflictions through wisdom and compassion.<br>One’s own welfare is by virtue of the first three qualities<br>And the welfare of others by virtue of the latter three. +
It is not [even] born in the form of bodies<br>Of a mental nature because it is permanent.<br>It does not [even] die by way of an inconceivable<br>Transformation because it is everlasting. +