中陰經賢護菩薩問事品第四
Chapter 4: The Bodhisattva Xianhu Asks
爾時，賢護菩薩即從坐起，偏袒右臂，右膝著地，長跪叉手，前白佛言：「善哉，世尊！欲、色、無色三分眾生，其識難量。何者有漏量？何者無漏量？何者有為量？何者無為量？何者有色無色量？何者有欲無欲量？何者有記無記量？」
At that time, the bodhisattva Xianhu rose from his seat, bared his right shoulder, knelt on his right knee, and with palms joined, bowed respectfully and said to the Buddha: "Excellent, World-Honored One! The consciousness of beings in the three realms of desire, form, and formlessness is difficult to measure. What is the measure of the conditioned? What is the measure of the unconditioned? What is the measure of the cultivated? What is the measure of the uncultivated? What is the measure of the formed and formless? What is the measure of desire and desirelessness? What is the measure of the marked and the unmarked?"
爾時，世尊聞賢護菩薩所問事，即說頌曰：
At that time, the World-Honored One, hearing the questions posed by the Bodhisattva Bhadrapala, proclaimed these verses:
「處在胞胎中， 受形多種類，
前滅後已生， 其如恒沙數。
三分識眾生， 塵垢非一等，
或聞聲而度、 或見形得道。
今我妙覺佛， 降神入中陰，
一一分別了， 有漏、無漏法。
得道成果證， 五色識易度，
斯等一部界， 不在有、無漏。
眾生在中陰， 如我身無異；
苦痛五陰形， 如轉輪無盡。
吾我本無字， 聲響亦無名，
觀身三十六， 欲界有量法，
三分留二分。 此中陰眾生、
五色識眾生， 不染三界苦、
無明、癡、愛惑， 隱相非不相。
有漏苦諦本， 斷結不及色；
集諦二十八， 寂然塵垢除；
三十七道品， 道諦為實果。
賢護！汝今知， 有漏、無漏法，
記法、無記法， 今當與汝說。
有記善惡行、 無記癡盲法，
墜墮於生死， 非我無能濟。」
"Within the womb, bodies take on countless forms; Each one arising as the last ceases, like endless grains of sand.
Beings with consciousness divide into three kinds, their defilements varying widely; Some attain liberation through hearing sound, others by seeing a form.
Now I, the Enlightened One of wondrous awakening, descend into the intermediate state (bardo), And discern each and every one—the conditioned and the unconditioned truths.
Those who attain the path and realize its fruits, their five-aggregate consciousness is easy to liberate; These belong to a single category, free from both conditioned and unconditioned divisions.
Beings in the intermediate state are not different from my own nature; But the suffering of the five aggregates' form turns endlessly, like a wheel without beginning.
The self has no original name, nor does sound or word possess inherent meaning; Examining the thirty-two parts of the body, the desire realm has measurable conditions, Where three parts leave only two—yet those beings in the intermediate state, Beings of consciousness composed of five elements, are unstained by the three realms' suffering.
Ignorance, delusion, and craving confuse them—though their marks are hidden, they are not absent. The conditioned truth of suffering is the root; cutting off fetters does not reach form; The truth of origination has twenty-eight aspects, which, when calmed, removes all dust; The thirty-seven factors of awakening—the truth of the path is the real fruit.
O Xianhu! You should now know: the conditioned and the unconditioned, The definable and the indefinable—I shall explain them to you. The definable includes good and evil actions; the indefinable includes blind, ignorant states. Those who fall into these sink into birth-and-death—none but I can rescue them."
當佛、世尊說此語時，九十一億眾生皆發無上道意，四十七億那由他眾生盡得阿羅漢果。
When the Buddha, the World-Honored One, spoke these words, 9.1 billion beings awakened the supreme aspiration for enlightenment, and 4.7 billion nayuta beings attained the state of Arhatship.