Verse II.35

Ratnagotravibhāga Root Verse II.35

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शान्तं निरोधसत्यत्वाद्‍व्यापि सर्वावबोधतः
अकल्पमप्रतिष्ठानादसक्तं क्लेशहानितः

E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West.

śāntaṃ nirodhasatyatvādvyāpi sarvāvabodhataḥ
akalpamapratiṣṭhānādasaktaṃ kleśahānitaḥ

E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West.

རབ་ཞི་འགོག་པའི་བདེན་པའི་ཕྱིར། །
ཐམས་ཅད་རྟོགས་ཕྱིར་ཁྱབ་པ་ཉིད། །
གནས་པ་མེད་ཕྱིར་རྟོག་མེད་དེ། །
ཉོན་མོངས་སྤངས་ཕྱིར་ཆགས་པ་མེད། །

Dege, PHI, 126

It is peaceful because it is the reality of cessation.
It is all-pervasive since it realizes everything.
It is nonconceptual because it is nonabiding.
It is without attachment since the afflictions are relinquished.

When the Clouds Part, Brunnhölzl, 422

[L’Éveil est] très paisible en tant que vérité de la cessation ;

Omniprésent pour sa réalisation de toute chose ; Sans pensées parce qu’il ne fait fond sur rien ; Et sans attachement parce qu’il n’a plus d’affections.

Charrier, Christian and Patrick Carré. Traité de la Continuité suprême du Grand Véhicule. Plazac: Éditions Padmakara, 2019.

RGVV Commentary on Verse II.35

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།ཚིགས་སུ་བཅད་པ་འདིའི་དོན་ནི་{br}མདོར་བསྡུ་ན་ཚིགས་སུ་བཅད་པ་བརྒྱད་ཀྱིས་རིག་པར་བྱ་སྟེ། རྣམ་གྲོལ་ཆོས་ཀྱི་སྐུ་དག་གིས། །རང་དང་གཞན་གྱི་དོན་བསྟན་ཏེ། །རང་གཞན་དོན་རྟེན་དེ་ལ་ནི། །བསམ་མི་ཁྱབ་སོགས་ཡོན་ཏན་ལྡན། །ཐམས་ཅད་མཁྱེན་པའི་ཡེ་ཤེས་ཡུལ། །སངས་རྒྱས་ཤེས་གསུམ་ཡུལ་མིན་ཕྱིར། །{br}ཡེ་ཤེས་ལུས་ཅན་རྣམས་ཀྱིས་ནི། །བསམ་མི་ཁྱབ་པར་རྟོགས་པར་བྱ། །ཕྲ་ཕྱིར་ཐོས་པའི་ཡུལ་མིན་ཏེ། །དོན་དམ་ཡིན་ཕྱིར་བསམ་བྱའི་མིན། །ཆོས་ཉིད་ཟབ་ཕྱིར་འཇིག་རྟེན་པའི། །སྒོམ་པ་ལ་སོགས་ཡུལ་མ་ཡིན། །གང་ཕྱིར་གཟུགས་ལ་དམུས་ལོང་བཞིན། །བྱིས་པས་དེ་སྔོན་མཐོང་མ་མྱོང་། །{br}བཙས་པའི་ཁྱིམ་ནས་བུ་ཆུང་གིས། །ཉི་མའི་གཟུགས་བཞིན་འཕགས་པས་ཀྱང་། །སྐྱེ་དང་བྲལ་ཞིང་རྟག་པ་སྟེ། །འགག་པ་མེད་ཕྱིར་བརྟན་པ་ཡིན། །གཉིས་མེད་ཕྱིར་ན་ཞི་བ་སྟེ། །གཡུང་དྲུང་ཆོས་ཉིད་གནས་ཕྱིར་རོ། །རབ་ཞི་འགོག་པའི་བདེན་པའི་ཕྱིར། །ཐམས་ཅད་རྟོགས་ཕྱིར་ཁྱབ་པ་{br}ཉིད། །གནས་པ་མེད་ཕྱིར་རྟོག་མེད་དེ། །ཉོན་མོངས་སྤངས་ཕྱིར་ཆགས་པ་མེད། །ཤེས་བྱའི་སྒྲིབ་ཀུན་དག་བྱའི་ཕྱིར། །ཐམས་ཅད་དུ་ནི་ཐོགས་པ་མེད། །གཉིས་མེད་ལས་སུ་རུང་བའི་ཕྱིར། །རྩུབ་པའི་རེག་དང་བྲལ་བའི་ཕྱིར། །དེ་གཟུགས་མེད་ཅིང་བལྟར་མེད་དེ། །མཚན་མ་

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མེད་ཕྱིར་གཟུང་དུ་མེད། །དགེ་བའི་རང་བཞིན་དག་པའི་ཕྱིར། །དྲི་མེད་དྲི་མ་སྤངས་ཕྱིར་རོ།

Here, the meaning of this verse is to be understood in brief through the [following] eight verses.

One’s own welfare and that of others is taught

Through the vimukti[kāya] and the dharmakāya.

This foundation of one’s own welfare and that of others

Is endowed with the qualities such as being inconceivable. II.30

Buddhahood is the object of omniscient wisdom [alone].

Since it is not the object of the three wisdoms,

It is to be understood as being inconceivable

[Even] by people with wisdom. II.31

Since it is subtle, it is not an object of study.

Since it is the ultimate, it is not [an object] of reflection.

Since it is the depth of the nature of phenomena,

It is not [an object] of worldly meditation and so forth. II.32

For naive beings have never seen it before,

Just as those born blind [have never seen] form.

Even noble ones [see it only] as an infant [would glimpse]

The orb of the sun while lying in the house of a new mother. II.33

It is permanent because it is free from arising.

It is everlasting since it is free from ceasing.

It is quiescent because it is without duality.

It is eternal since the nature of phenomena [always] remains. II.34 (J85)

It is peaceful because it is the reality of cessation.

It is all-pervasive since it realizes everything.

It is nonconceptual because it is nonabiding.

It is without attachment since the afflictions are relinquished. II.35

It is everywhere without obstruction

Because it is pure of all cognitive obscurations.

It is free from harsh sensations

Since it is a state of gentleness and workability. II.36

It is invisible because it has no form. (D118a)

It is ungraspable since it has no characteristics.

It is splendid because it is pure by nature.

It is stainless because the stains are eliminated. II.37

atha khalvasya ślokasyārthaḥ samāsato'ṣṭābhiḥ ślokairveditavyaḥ/

vimuktidharmakāyābhyāṃ svaparārtho nidarśitaḥ/

svaparārthāśraye tasmin yogo'cintyādibhirguṇaiḥ//30//

acintyamanugantavyaṃ trijñānāviṣayatvataḥ/

sarvajñajñānaviṣayaṃ buddhatvaṃ jñānadehibhiḥ//31//

śrutasyāviṣayaḥ saukṣmyāccintāyāḥ paramārthataḥ/

laukyādibhāvanāyāśca dharmatāgavharatvataḥ//32//

dṛṣṭapūrvaṃ na tadyasmādvālairjātyandhakāyavat/

āryaiśca sūtikāmadhyasthita bālārkabimbavat//33//

utpādavigamānnityaṃ nirodhavigamāddhruvam/

śivametaddvayābhāvācchāśvataṃ dharmatāsthiteḥ//34//

śāntaṃ nirodhasatyatvādvyāpi sarvāvabodhataḥ/

akalpamapratiṣṭhānādasaktaṃ kleśahānitaḥ//35//

sarvatrāpratighaṃ sarvajñeyāvaraṇaśuddhitaḥ/

paruṣasparśanirmuktaṃ mṛdukarmaṇyabhāvataḥ//36//

adṛśyaṃ tadarūpitvādagrāhyamanimittataḥ/

śubhaṃ prakṛtiśuddhatvādamalaṃ malahānitaḥ//37//

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Other English translations

Obermiller (1931)

It represents the Perfect Peace, being the negation (of Phenomenal Existence),

It is all-pervading, as it cognizes everything,

It is free from thought-construction through the non-insistence (upon the reality of the elements),

Devoid of all attachment, owing to the extirpation of defilement.

Takasaki (1966)

It is 'perfectly pacified' as being the Truth of Extinction,

It is ' all-pervading ' since it cognizes everything;

It is 'non-discriminative' as it has no insistence;

And 'has no attachment' since it rejects defilements.

Fuchs (2000)

It is utter peace, since the truth of cessation [is revealed].

Since everything is realized, it pervades [all the knowable].

Since it does not dwell upon anything, it is without ideation.

Since the mental poisons are eliminated, it has no attachment.

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kleśa - Often referred to as poisons, these are a class of disturbing or disruptive emotional states that when aroused negatively affect or taint the mind. Skt. क्लेश Tib. ཉོན་མོངས་ Ch. 煩惱

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dharmakāya - "Truth body" or "true being" — One of the three bodies of a buddha. In Mahāyāna Buddhism, it often refers to a kind of fundamental principle or the true nature of reality itself. Skt. धर्मकाय Tib. ཆོས་སྐུ་ Ch. 法身

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āvaraṇa - Literally, that which obscures or conceals. Often listed as a set of two obscurations (sgrib gnyis): the afflictive emotional obscurations (Skt. kleśāvaraṇa, Tib. nyon mongs pa'i sgrib pa) and the cognitive obscurations (Skt. jñeyāvaraṇa, Tib. shes bya'i sgrib pa). By removing the first, one becomes free of suffering, and by removing the second, one becomes omniscient. Skt. आवरण Tib. སྒྲིབ་པ་

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āvaraṇa - Literally, that which obscures or conceals. Often listed as a set of two obscurations (sgrib gnyis): the afflictive emotional obscurations (Skt. kleśāvaraṇa, Tib. nyon mongs pa'i sgrib pa) and the cognitive obscurations (Skt. jñeyāvaraṇa, Tib. shes bya'i sgrib pa). By removing the first, one becomes free of suffering, and by removing the second, one becomes omniscient. Skt. आवरण Tib. སྒྲིབ་པ་

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āvaraṇa - Literally, that which obscures or conceals. Often listed as a set of two obscurations (sgrib gnyis): the afflictive emotional obscurations (Skt. kleśāvaraṇa, Tib. nyon mongs pa'i sgrib pa) and the cognitive obscurations (Skt. jñeyāvaraṇa, Tib. shes bya'i sgrib pa). By removing the first, one becomes free of suffering, and by removing the second, one becomes omniscient. Skt. आवरण Tib. སྒྲིབ་པ་

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āvaraṇa - Literally, that which obscures or conceals. Often listed as a set of two obscurations (sgrib gnyis): the afflictive emotional obscurations (Skt. kleśāvaraṇa, Tib. nyon mongs pa'i sgrib pa) and the cognitive obscurations (Skt. jñeyāvaraṇa, Tib. shes bya'i sgrib pa). By removing the first, one becomes free of suffering, and by removing the second, one becomes omniscient. Skt. आवरण Tib. སྒྲིབ་པ་

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advaya - Literally, "without duality," it refers to that which is indivisible, in that it is not divided into two. Skt. अद्वय Tib. གཉིས་མེད་ Ch. 不二

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Uttaratantra - The Ultimate Continuum, or Gyü Lama, is often used as a short title in the Tibetan tradition for the key source text of buddha-nature teachings called the Ratnagotravibhāga of Maitreya/Asaṅga, also known as the Mahāyānottaratantraśāstra. Skt. उत्तरतन्त्र Tib. རྒྱུད་བླ་མ་ Ch. 寶性論

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