Then the blessed lady said, “Are you, O lord, with or without passion?”

The blessed lord said:

“I am everyone, and I pervade everything, Creating everything and destroying everything. I possess all forms, I am the awakened one; I am the creator, the destroyer, a powerful lord full of bliss.

“Through whatever form Beings may be guided, In that very form, I abide For the benefit of the world.

“Sometimes I am the Buddha, sometimes a siddha, Sometimes the Dharma, sometimes the Saṅgha, Sometimes a hungry ghost, sometimes an animal, Sometimes I assume the form of a hell being.

“Sometimes I am a god, sometimes a demigod, Sometimes I assume a human form, Sometimes the form of an inanimate object— I possess all forms, there is no doubt.

“I am a woman and also a man, Sometimes I have a genderless form. Sometimes I am affectionate, sometimes hateful, Sometimes deluded, sometimes pure,

“Sometimes I have an impure form. I exist essentially as mind; It is my mind that is perceived— Nothing else exists at all.

“I can be categorized as a thing or a no-thing; I am one that can be generated, and also one who generates. I am an obstacle and I am an accomplishment, Abiding in every form.

“I am birth and I am death, I am disease and I am old age. I am virtue and I am nonvirtue, And I am the karmic result of these two.

“This entire world consists of the Awakened One, And all these forms are of myself— They should be known as forms, in essence the same, By the yogins reflecting on truth.”

Then the blessed lady said, “Are these forms only of you?”

The blessed lord said:

“Such forms are of yourself, as well; All that has been explained. All this is permeated by you— The inanimate and animate worlds.”