ye tu gotraviśeṣāt prakṛtyaiva parahitakaraṇaikābhirāmāḥ saṃskārādiduḥkhatritayapīḍitaṃ jagadavekṣya kṛpāparatantratayā tadduḥkhaduḥkhinaḥ svātmani vyapekṣām apāsya sakalāneva saṃsāriṇa ātmatvenābhyupagatās tatparitrāṇāya praṇidadhate teṣāṃ karuṇaiva bhāvanāpravṛttinimittam parokṣopeyataddhtos tadākhyānasya duṣkaratvāt /
But those who, due to their special lineage, are by nature delighting solely in benefiting others, seeing the world afflicted by the three types of suffering beginning with dispositions, through their dependence on compassion become pained by its pain, and abandoning concern for themselves, accept all beings in saṃsāra as [their] self and resolve to rescue them - for them compassion alone is the cause of the arising of cultivation, because it is difficult to explain that [cultivation] and its cause which are imperceptible.