"Oh, good man! On the fifteenth day, when the moon is full, there are eleven things. What are the eleven? They are: 1) it really dispels the gloom, 2) it indeed enables beings to see the way and what is not the way, 3) it enables (distinguish) the right way and wrong, 4) it enables beings make away with depression and blesses them with purity and freshness, 5) it indeed destroys the arrogance of the firefly, 6) it truly dispels the thought of any thieves, 7) it indeed dispels the fear of the evil beasts of the beings, 8 ) it opens the bloom of the kumuda, 9) it thoroughly closes the petals of the lotus, 10) it calls forth within the traveler the thought of proceeding along the way, 11) it enables beings to enjoy the acceptance of five pleasures and to gain the joy in many ways.
Oh, good man! It's the same with the Tathagata's Full-Moon, to wit: 1) it truly dispels the gloom of ignorance, 2) it exposes the right way and wrong, 3) it shows clearly the wrong and steep path of birth and death, and the straight and plane path of Nirvana, 4) it enables beings to segregate themselves from greed, ill-will, and ignorance, 5) it destroys the ignorance of the tirthikas, 6) it destroys the bondage of the thieves of defilement, 7) it kills the mind that fears the five shadowings ["panca-avaranani"], 8) it enables the beings minds reveal the root of good of all beings, 9) it indeed stops the mind of the five desires, 10) it promotes the mind of beings [which want] to move forward towards the Great Nirvana, 11) it enables all beings to be pleased with the [thought of] Emancipation. For these reasons, I enter Nirvana on the fifteenth day. But, truth to tell, I do not enter Nirvana. The ignorant and the evil among my disciples say that I definitely enter Nirvana."
Nirvana Sutra, Chapter 37, on Bodhisattva Lion's Roar 5.
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