The rich man, who was sitting on the lion-like seat, recognized him at first sight as his son. He was delighted. He thought, ‘Now I have found the person to whom I can transfer my treasures and storehouses. I have been thinking of my son all this time, but I have had no way to find him. Now he has come by himself all of a sudden.

Past conditions became reactivated in a subtle way: it is like [the father] “seeing his son.” Although he (the son) again felt like turning away, he was bound to realize afterwards the Greater [Vehicle]. For this reason, [the father was] “greatly pleased.” The profoundly subtle triggering-mechanism arrived in a subtle way, although he did not realize this; thus, “quite suddenly, he came of his own accord.”

“He immediately dispatched a man standing beside him to quickly bring back the poor son.

The sixteen feet tall was not “that by which the Buddha was” he was, as it were, “an attendant.” The “attendant” wanted to set forth the teaching of the Greater [Vehicle]: he thus “dispatched” a messenger. “Going” to the Greater [Vehicle] was the first thing to do: it was [something) “to follow.”

The messenger ran up to the poor son and caught him.

The wondrous Dharma of the Greater Vehicle is li, which grasps them firmly. li does not allow any lapse; it is something that requires “running.”

The poor son was frightened. He cried, ‘You Devil! I have done nothing wrong. Why do you catch me?’

[The Buddha’s] appearance was not what the son originally had anticipated: he was “alarmed.” It greatly offended his feelings, and he “cried out resentfully,” [because] it was like “committing no offense” and yet ending up seized.