and in some different words...

"I, the supreme source ["All-Creating King"], am the sole maker, and no other agent exists in the world. The nature of phenomena is created through me .The very manifestation of existence itself depends on me.I am self-arising wisdom that has existed from the beginning. I am the supreme source of everything, pure and total consciousness."

"As my nature is unhindered and all-pervading, it is the celestial abode of wisdom and luminous space: therein abides only self-arising wisdom. As I am the substance whence everything arises, the five great elements, the three worlds [i.e. the worlds of Desire, Form, and Formlessness] and the six classes of beings [hell-denizens, ghosts, animals, humans, Titans, and gods] are only my body, my voice, and my mind. "

"I myself create my own nature. The root of all phenomena is pure and total consciousness, the source. All that appears is my nature. All that manifests is my magical display. All sounds and words express only my meaning."

"I am the core of all that exists. I am the seed of all that exists. I am the foundation of all that exists. I am the root of existence. I am 'the core', because I contain all phenomena. I am 'the seed', because I give birth to everything. I am 'the cause', because all comes forth from me. I am 'the trunk', because the ramificationsof every event sprout from me. I am 'the foundation', because all abides in me. I am called 'the root', because I am everything"

In the Kulayarāja Tantra, Samantabhadra tells of how HE, the All-Creating King, is the essence of all things, beings and all Buddhas and that to know HIM, the Awakened Mind, is to attain the essence of Reality:

"I am the existential ground (gnas chen) of all Buddhas" and "... the root of all things is nothing else but one Self ... I am the place in which all existing things abide."

For a being to recognise their own Bodhicitta or Samantabhadra Buddha (eternally existent) is to be liberated.

Because sentient beings and all other phenomena arise because of Bodhicitta or the Mind of Perfect Purity, Samantabhadra refers to them in his teaching as his "children". Samantabhadra Buddha states:

"Oh all you sentient beings of this threefold world [i.e. the entire universe, both visible and invisible]! Because I, the All-Creating Sovereign, have created you, you are My children and equal to Me. Because you are not second to Me, I am present in you. Oh all you sentient beings of this threefold world, if I were not, you would be non-existent.Because all things do not exist outside of Me, I firmly declare that I am all - the All-Creating One."

Samantabhadra also insists: " ... everything is Me, the All-Creating Sovereign, mind of perfect purity ... I am the cause of all things. I am the stem of all things. I am the ground of all things. I am the root of all things ... There is no other Buddha besides Me, the All-Creating One."

It is entitled The All-Creating King.

This is what it teaches: all things spring from the Awakened Mind (bodhicitta), which is called Samantabhadra Buddha.

"Samantabhadra" means "All-Good" (we remember that one of the definitions of God earlier in this study stated that God is "all good").

This Samantabhadra Buddha is the source of all Buddhas and all beings.

Apart from Samantabhadra Buddha, nothing truly exists, since all depends on Buddha, but Buddha depends on nothing.

This Primaeval Buddha is called "Adi-Buddha" (Primordial Buddha) elsewhere in Buddhism, and is sometimes named Vairochana or Vajrasattva.

The important point, however, is that this Buddha represents the Ultimate Source of all things, whether of the past, present or future. Without Samantabhadra Buddha - the all-good, universal Mind of Awake-ness - nothing can exist.

Here are some quotes from the All-Creating King Tantra, in which Samantabhadra speaks directly to the listener:

"I, the supreme source ["All-Creating King"], am the sole maker, and no other agent exists in the world. The nature of phenomena is created through me .The very manifestation of existence itself depends on me.I am self-arising wisdom that has existed from the beginning. I am the supreme source of everything, pure and total consciousness."

"As my nature is unhindered and all-pervading, it is the celestial abode of wisdom and luminous space: therein abides only self-arising wisdom. As I am the substance whence everything arises, the five great elements, the three worlds [i.e. the worlds of Desire, Form, and Formlessness] and the six classes of beings [hell-denizens, ghosts, animals, humans, Titans, and gods] are only my body, my voice, and my mind. "

"I myself create my own nature. The root of all phenomena is pure and total consciousness, the source. All that appears is my nature. All that manifests is my magical display. All sounds and words express only my meaning."

"I am the core of all that exists. I am the seed of all that exists. I am the foundation of all that exists. I am the root of existence. I am 'the core', because I contain all phenomena. I am 'the seed', because I give birth to everything. I am 'the cause', because all comes forth from me. I am 'the trunk', because the ramificationsof every event sprout from me. I am 'the foundation', because all abides in me. I am called 'the root', because I am everything"

(Translation of "The All-Creating King", published as The Supreme Source, tr. by Adriano Clemente and Andrew Lukianowicz, Snow Lion Publications, Ithaca, New York 1999, pp. 137-141, 157).

This amazing "theos-en-pan" ("God-in-all"), divine declaration establishes a number of important points.

Firstly, the Absolute Reality is Universal Mind or Consciousness.

Secondly, that Consciousness generates all things, from ordinary creatures, people and animals to the highest Buddhic beings.

Thirdly, that Consciousness is able to communicate with its creation (that is precisely what it is doing here) - there is a potential relationship between Creator and Created.

Fourthly, this Supreme Source is in some senses a personal being, however transcendent (it speaks of possessing universal body, speech and mind, and of "my nature", etc.).

Fifthly, it was never created but has existed from the very beginning.

Finally, everything enshrines this All-Making King's very own Nature within itself - nothing is cut off from "God", the essence of the intelligent Totality.