So we call this stage the best-loved. For example, the father and mother are worried at heart as they see their son ill. So it is with the bodhisattva, the great being, who abides in this stage. As he sees beings bound up in the illness of illusion, his heart aches. He is worried as in the case of an only son.
Blood comes out from all pores of the skin.
That is why we call this stage as that of an only son. A child picks up earth, dirty things, tiles, stones, old bones, pieces of wood and puts them into his mouth, at which the father and mother, apprehensive of the harms that might arise thereby, take the child with the left hand and with the right take these out. The bodhisattva sees, and with the hand of wisdom has it extracted. He does not wish that man should repeat birth and death, receiving thereby sorrow and worry. When a father and mother part with their beloved son as the son dies, their hearts so ache that they feel that they themselves should die together with him.