2c) The benefits of the bodhicitta of aspiring

For beings:

Though some may worship the Buddhas to the limits of the directions
For many millions of kalpas, caring only for personal good,
This will not match even a fraction of the merit of aspiration.

The Glorious Account of the dharmas of Complete Great Nirvana (’phags pa yongs su mya ngan las ‘das pa’i chos kyi rnam grangs) says:

Though some were to offer for all their lives to all the buddhas
The seven precious things^[1] and the requisites of life,
Along with measureless offerings of the five kinds of food,

Better still is the best aspiration, enlightenment,
For the sake of sentient beings, for just the space of a moment.
The excellent virtues of doing that are limitless.

And also:

Whatever being, for even the space of a moment,
Meditates by arousing bodhicitta,
As for the heap of merit of doing that,
It cannot be reckoned by even the conquerors.