“Kāśyapa, know this! I, the Tathāgata, am like the cloud. I appeared in this world just as the large cloud rose.

The Dharma-body fills up [the ultimate of nonbeing]; the shade of compassion is like a cloud.

I expounded the Dharma to gods, men and asuras of the world with a loud voice just as the large cloud covered all the one thousand million Sumeru-worlds.

li is broad and immeasurable: it is “great.” There is no being that does not hear and know about it: it “pervades.” It “pervades” and covers men and gods, so that they may be free of the heat (or passion) of depravities (kleśa).

I said {proclaimed} to the great multitude, ‘I am the Tathāgata, the Deserver of Offerings, the Perfectly Enlightened One, the Man of Wisdom and Practice, the Well-Gone, the Knower of the World, the Unsurpassed Man, the Controller of Men, the Teacher of Gods and Men, the Buddha, the World-Honored One. I will cause all living beings to cross [the ocean of birth and death] if they have not yet done so. I will cause them to emancipate themselves [from suffering] if they have not yet done so. I will cause them to have peace of mind if they have not yet done so. I will cause them to attain Nirvana if they have not yet done so. I know their present lives as they are, and also their future lives as they will be. I know all. I see all. I know the Way. I have opened the Way. I will expound the Way. Gods, men and asuras! Come and hear the Dharma!’

li becomes luminous: he “proclaims.” They should pay attention to it: thus, he talks about it. The Tao spreads in the world. When conditions are met, they are certain to hear it. This is, “all should come here in order to listen to the Dharma!”