Verse II.72

Ratnagotravibhāga Root Verse II.72

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Verse II.72 Variations

पञ्चभिः कारणैः सौक्ष्म्यादिचिन्त्यो धर्मकायतः
षष्ठेनातत्त्वभावित्वादचिन्त्यो रूपकायतः

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

pañcabhiḥ kāraṇaiḥ saukṣmyādicintyo dharmakāyataḥ
ṣaṣṭhenātattvabhāvitvādacintyo rūpakāyataḥ

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

རྒྱུ་ལྔ་དག་གིས་ཕྲ་བའི་ཕྱིར། །
ཆོས་སྐུ་བསམ་མི་ཁྱབ་པ་སྟེ། །
དྲུག་པས་དེ་ཡི་དངོས་མིན་ཕྱིར། །
གཟུགས་སྐུ་བསམ་མི་ཁྱབ་པའོ། །

Dege, PHI, 129

Due to the [first] five reasons, [buddhahood] is subtle
And therefore is inconceivable in terms of the dharmakāya.
Due to the sixth one, it is not [manifest in] its truly real state
And therefore is inconceivable in terms of the rūpakāya.

When the Clouds Part, Brunnhölzl, 428

Subtil pour les cinq premières raisons,

Le corps absolu est inconcevable ;

Irréels, pour la sixième [raison],

Les corps formels sont inconcevables.

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

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།འདིའི་བསྡུས་པའི་དོན་ནི་ཚིགས་སུ་བཅད་པ་བཞིས་རིག་{br}པར་བྱ་སྟེ། བསམ་མེད་བརྗོད་དུ་མེད་ཕྱིར་ཏེ། །བརྗོད་མེད་དོན་དམ་ཡིན་ཕྱིར་རོ། །དོན་དམ་བརྟག་བྱ་མིན་ཕྱིར་ཏེ། །བརྟག་མིན་རྗེས་དཔག་བྱ་མིན་ཕྱིར། །དཔག་མིན་བླ་ན་མེད་པའི་ཕྱིར། །བླ་ན་མེད་པ་མ་བསྡུས་ཕྱིར། །མ་བསྡུས་གནས་པ་མེད་ཕྱིར་ཏེ། །ཡོན་ཏན་སྐྱོན་{br}རྟོགས་མེད་ཕྱིར་རོ། །རྒྱུ་ལྔ་དག་གིས་ཕྲ་བའི་ཕྱིར། །ཆོས་སྐུ་བསམ་མི་ཁྱབ་པ་སྟེ། །དྲུག་པས་དེ་ཡི་དངོས་མིན་ཕྱིར། །གཟུགས་སྐུ་བསམ་གྱིས་མི་ཁྱབ་པའོ། །བླ་མེད་ཡེ་ཤེས་ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་སོགས་ཡོན་ཏན་གྱིས། །ཡོན་ཏན་ཕ་རོལ་བྱོན་པའི་རྒྱལ་བ་བསམ་མི་ཁྱབ། །{br}དེས་ན་རང་བྱུང་རྣམས་ཀྱི་ཐ་མའི་ཚུལ་འདི་ནི། །དྲང་སྲོང་ཆེན་པོ་དབང་ཐོབ་རྣམས་ཀྱིས་ཀྱང་རིག་མིན།

The summarized meaning of this is to be understood through [the following] four verses.

It is inconceivable because it is inexpressible.

It is inexpressible because it is the ultimate.

It is the ultimate because it is incomprehensible by reason.

It is incomprehensible by reason because it is immeasurable. II.70

It is immeasurable because it is unsurpassable.

It is unsurpassable because it is not included [in saṃsāra or nirvāṇa].

It is not included [in them] because it does not abide [in either one]

Since it lacks conceptions about their flaws and qualities, respectively. II.71

Due to the [first] five reasons, [buddhahood] is subtle

And therefore is inconceivable in terms of the dharmakāya.

Due to the sixth one, it is not [manifest in] its truly real state

And therefore is inconceivable in terms of the rūpakāya. II.72

By virtue of the qualities of unsurpassable wisdom and great compassion,

The victors, who have accomplished [all] qualities, are inconceivable.

Therefore, this final stage of the self-arisen ones is not even known

By the great seers who have obtained the empowerment. II.73

asya piṇḍārthaścaturbhiḥ ślokairveditavyaḥ/

acintyo'nabhilāpyatvādalāpyaḥ paramārthataḥ/

paramārtho'pratavaryatvādatarkyo vyanumeyataḥ//70//

vyanumeyo'nuttaratvādānuttaryamanudgrahāt/

anudgraho'pratiṣṭhānādaguṇadoṣāvikalpanāt//71//

pañcabhiḥ kāraṇaiḥ saukṣmyādicintyo dharmakāyataḥ/

ṣaṣṭhenātattvabhāvitvādacintyo rūpakāyataḥ//72//

anuttarajñānamahākṛpādibhi-

rguṇairacintyā guṇapāragā jināḥ/

ataḥ kramo'ntyo'yamapi svayaṃbhuvo

'bhiṣekalabdhā na maharṣayo viduriti//73//

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Other English translations

Obermiller (1931)

The Cosmical Body is inconceivable,

Being subtle and transcendental out of 4 motives,

And the corporeal forms are likewise beyond the reach of human intellect,

This owing to a sixth motive, (as they' represent

Mere reflections of the Cosmical Body),

Which have no real essence of their own.

Takasaki (1966)

Being subtle by the [first] 5 motives

He is inconceivable in his Absolute Body,

And by the 6th, on account of his Apparitional Body,

He is inconceivable because of no identification

With either Nirvāṇa or Phenomenal World.

Fuchs (2000)

For the [first] five reasons the dharmakaya is subtle

and thus beyond the reach of thought. For the sixth

the form kayas are inconceivable. [They show appearance]

but are not something that fulfils the function of this.

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