Verse IV.65

Ratnagotravibhāga Root Verse IV.65

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सर्वक्षेत्रनभस्तलस्फरणता भानोर् न संविद्यते नाप्य् अज्ञानतमो ऽन्धकारगहनज्ञेयार्थसंदर्शनम्
नानावर्णविकीर्णरश्मिविसरैर् एकैकरोमोद्भवैर् भासन्ते करुणात्मका जगति तु ज्ञेयार्थसंदर्शकाः

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

sarvakṣetranabhastalaspharaṇatā bhānor na saṃvidyate nāpy ajñānatamo ’ndhakāragahanajñeyārthasaṃdarśanam
nānāvarṇavikīrṇaraśmivisarair ekaikaromodbhavair bhāsante karuṇātmakā jagati tu jñeyārthasaṃdarśakāḥ

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

ཞིང་ཀུན་ནམ་མཁའི་མཐིལ་སྤྲོ་ཉི་མ་ལ་མེད་ལ། །
མི་ཤེས་མུན་བཀབ་ཤེས་བྱའི་དོན་སྟོན་པ་ཡང་མིན། །
ཐུགས་རྗེའི་བདག་ཉིད་སྣ་ཚོགས་མདོག་བཀྱེའི་འོད་ཚོགས་ཀྱིས། །
གསལ་བ་དག་ནི་འགྲོ་ལ་ཤེས་བྱའི་དོན་སྟོན་མཛད། །

Dege, PHI, 140

The sun does not pervade all realms or the [entire] sphere of the sky,
Nor does it show [all] knowable objects enveloped in the dense darkness of ignorance,
But those whose character is compassion illuminate the world and show [all] knowable objects
With an abundance of light rays that radiate in all kinds of colors and stream forth from each body hair.

When the Clouds Part, Brunnhölzl, 449

Le soleil ne rayonne pas jusqu’au fond de l’espace dans tous les univers

Et il ne peut même pas montrer le sens d’un objet

retenu sous les ténèbres de l’ignorance.

La compassion incarnée éclaire tout et montre aux êtres

le sens des choses

Avec des lumières rayonnant de toutes les couleurs.

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

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།འོད་ཀྱི་དཀྱིལ་འཁོར་ཁྱད་པར་དུ་གྱུར་པ་ནི། ཞིང་ཀུན་ནམ་མཁའི་དཀྱིལ་འཕྲོ་ཉི་མ་ལ་མེད་ལ། །མི་ཤེས་མུན་བཀབ་ཤེས་བྱའི་དོན་སྟོན་པ་ཡང་མིན། །ཐུགས་རྗེའི་བདག་ཉིད་སྣ་ཚོགས་མདོག་བཀྱེའི་འོད་ཚོགས་ཀྱིས། །གསལ་བ་དག་ནི་{br}འགྲོ་ལ་ཤེས་བྱའི་དོན་སྟོན་མཛད། །སངས་རྒྱས་གྲོང་དུ་གཤེགས་ཚེ་མིག་དང་མི་ལྡན་པ་ཡི་སྐྱེ་བོ་རྣམས། །མཐོང་ཞིང་དོན་མེད་ཚོགས་བྲལ་དོན་དེ་མཐོང་བ་ལས་ནི་མྱོང་བ་དང་། །གཏི་མུག་གིས་ལྡོངས་སྲིད་པའི་མཚོར་ལྷུང་ལྟ་བའི་མུན་པས་བསྒྲིབས་པ་རྣམས། །སངས་རྒྱས་ཉི་{br}མའི་འོད་ཀྱིས་བློ་སྣང་མ་མཐོང་བ་ཡི་གནས་མཐོང་འགྱུར།

As for the orb of light [of the sun of the Buddha’s] being more eminent [than the actual sun]: P132a)

The sun does not pervade all realms or the [entire] sphere of the sky,

Nor does it show [all] knowable objects enveloped in the dense darkness of ignorance,

But those whose character is compassion illuminate the world and show [all] knowable objects

With an abundance of light rays that radiate in all kinds of colors and stream forth from each body hair. IV.65

When the buddhas enter a city, people without eyes [can] see what is meaningful

And, by virtue of that seeing, know how to be free from the web of what is meaningless.

Also, the minds of those blinded by ignorance, who have fallen into the foaming sea of [saṃsāric] existence

And are obscured by the darkness of views, are illuminated by the sun of the Buddha and see matters unseen [before]. IV.66

prabhāmaṇḍalaviśeṣaṇe /

sarvakṣetranabhastalaspharaṇatā bhānor na saṃvidyate nāpy ajñānatamo

’ndhakāragahanajñeyārthasaṃdarśanam /

nānāvarṇavikīrṇaraśmivisarair ekaikaromodbhavair bhāsante karuṇātmakā jagati tu

jñeyārthasaṃdarśakāḥ // 65 //

buddhānāṃ nagarapraveśasamaye cakṣurvihīnā janāḥ paśyanty artham anarthajālavigamaṃ

vindanti taddarśanāt /

mohāndhāś ca bhavārṇavāntaragatā dṛṣṭyandhakārāvṛtā buddhārkaprabhayāvabhāsitadhiyaḥ

paśyanty adṛṣṭaṃ padam // 66 //

No Chinese commentary defined.

Other English translations

Obermiller (1931)

(The power of) penetrating into all the different worlds

And all the regions of the sky does not exist with the sun,

And it likewise cannot remove the darkness of ignorance

And demonstrate the essence of everything cognizable;

But the multitudes of rays which, in a variety of colours，

Emanate from him who is endowed with Highest Mercy.一

They illuminate and show the essence of all things.

Takasaki (1966)

Of the sun, there does not exist the all-pervadingness

In all kinds of lands and in the whole sky,

Nor does he show all things knowable [by removing]

The thicket of the darkness of ignorance;

But those who are of the nature of Compassion,

Illuminate the world with spreading bands of rays,

Produced from each hair and filled with various colours,

And manifest all things knowable.

Fuchs (2000)

The sun does not radiate to the depth of space in every field, nor can it show

the meaning of the knowable [to those] confined to the darkness of unknowing.

Appearing in clarity through a multitude of light emitting various colors,

Those of Compassionate Nature show the meaning of the knowable to beings.

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avidyā - Literally "unknowing," it refers to a lack of knowledge or misunderstanding of the nature of reality. As such, it is considered to be the root cause of suffering and the basis for the arising of all other negative mental factors. Skt. अविद्या Tib. མ་རིག་པ་ Ch. 無明