If someone can be liberated by a god, dragon, yaksha, or gandharva, an asura, garuda, kinnara, or mahoraga, a human, nonhuman, and so forth, he appears accordingly and teaches him the Dharma.

• 应以天、龙、夜叉、乾闼婆、阿修罗、伽楼罗、紧那罗、摩候罗伽、人、非人等身得度者。即皆现之而为说法。