THE SUPREMACY
OF UNCONDITIONED BLESSINGS, ELEVEN
" Subhuti, suppose there were as many Ganges Rivers as there are grains
of sand in the Ganges River. What do you think, would the grains of sand
in all those Ganges Rivers be many?" Subhuti said, "Very many World Honored
One. That many Ganges rivers alone would be uncountable, how much the
more so the grains of sands contained in them. "Subhuti, I am speaking
truthfully. Suppose a good man or good woman had filled with the Seven
Kinds of Precious Gems as many Threefold Great Thousand World Systems
as there are grains of sand in all those Ganges Rivers and gave them as
an offering. Would that person obtain many blessings?" Subhuti said, "Very
many World Honored One." The Buddha told Subhuti, "If a good man or good
woman were to accept and uphold even so few as four lines of verse from
this Sutra and speak them for others, those blessings and virtues would
surpass the previous blessings and virtues."
