Verse V.21

Ratnagotravibhāga Root Verse V.21

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आर्यांश्चापवदन्ति तन्निगदितं धर्मं च गर्हन्ति यत्
सर्वः सोऽभिनिवेशदर्शनकृतः क्लेशो विमूढात्मनाम्
तस्मान्नाभिनिवेशदृष्टिमलिने तस्मिन्निवेश्या मतिः
शुद्धं वस्त्रमुपैति रङ्गविकृतिं न स्नेहपङ्काङ्कितम्

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

āryāṃścāpavadanti tannigaditaṃ dharmaṃ ca garhanti yat
sarvaḥ so'bhiniveśadarśanakṛtaḥ kleśo vimūḍhātmanām
tasmānnābhiniveśadṛṣṭimaline tasminniveśyā matiḥ
śuddhaṃ vastramupaiti raṅgavikṛtiṃ na snehapaṅkāṅkitam

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

ཉོན་མོངས་རྨོངས་བདག་རྣམས་ཀྱིས་འཕགས་ལ་སྐུར་བ་དང་། །
དེས་གསུངས་ཆོས་ལ་བརྙས་གང་དེ་ཀུན་ཞེན་ལྟས་བྱས། །
དེས་ན་ཞེན་ལྟའི་དྲི་ཅན་དེ་ལ་བློ་མི་སྦྱར། །
གོས་གཙང་ཚོན་གྱིས་རྣམ་འགྱུར་སྣུམ་གྱིས་གོས་པ་མིན། །

Dege, PHI, 144

The entirety of deprecating the noble ones and blaming the dharma taught by them
Is the affliction of those with foolish character, created by views that entail clinging.
Therefore, one’s mind should not be mingled with what is stained by views that entail clinging —
[Only] a clean garment can be dyed but not one that is tainted by grease or dirt.

When the Clouds Part, Brunnhölzl, 458

Avec leurs vues d’attachement, les ignorants

qu’aveuglent leurs affections

Bafouent les êtres sublimes et dénigrent leurs enseignements.

N’allez donc pas souiller votre esprit à ces vues d’attachement

On teinte le tissu propre et non les tissus tachés de graisse.

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

RGVV Commentary on Verse V.21

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།བདག་བསྲུང་བའི་ཐབས་ལས་བརྩམས་ཏེ་ཚིགས་སུ་བཅད་པ། གང་ཕྱིར་རྒྱལ་ལས་ཆེས་མཁས་འགའ་ཡང་འཇིག་རྟེན་འདི་ན་ཡོད་མིན་ཏེ། །མ་ལུས་དེ་ཉིད་མཆོག་ནི་ཚུལ་བཞིན་ཀུན་མཁྱེན་གྱིས་མཁྱེན་གཞན་མིན་པ། །དེ་ཕྱིར་{br}དྲང་སྲོང་རང་ཉིད་ཀྱིས་གཞག་མདོ་སྡེ་གང་ཡིན་དེ་མི་དཀྲུག །ཐུབ་ཚུལ་གཞིག་ཕྱིར་དེ་ཡང་དམ་ཆོས་ལ་ནི་གནོད་པ་བྱེད་པར་འགྱུར། །ཉོན་མོངས་རྨོངས་བདག་རྣམས་ཀྱིས་འཕགས་ལ་སྐུར་པ་དང་། །དེས་གསུངས་ཆོས་ལ་བརྙས་གང་དེ་ཀུན་ཞེན་ལྟས་བྱས། །དེས་ན་ཞེན་ལྟའི་དྲི་ཅན་དེ་ལ་བློ་མི་སྦྱར། །{br}གོས་གཙང་ཚོན་གྱིས་རྣམ་བསྒྱུར་སྣུམ་གྱིས་གོས་པ་མིན།

[(There follow two) verses about the means of protecting oneself (from becoming deprived of the dharma).]

In this world, there is no one wiser than the victor, (P135a)

No other one anywhere who is omniscient and properly knows supreme true reality in its entirety.

Therefore, one should not deviate from the sūtras taught to be definitive by the seer himself .

Otherwise, this will harm the genuine dharma through destroying the guidance of the sage. V.20

The entirety of deprecating the noble ones and blaming the dharma taught by them

Is the affliction of those with foolish character, created by views that entail clinging.

Therefore, one’s mind should not be mingled with what is stained by views that entail clinging —

[Only] a clean garment can be dyed but not one that is tainted by grease or dirt. V.21

yasmānneha jināt supaṇḍitatamo loke'sti kaścitkvacit

sarvajñaḥ sakalaṃ sa veda vidhivattattvaṃ paraṃ nāparaḥ/

tasmādyatsvayameva nītamṛṣiṇā sūtraṃ vicālyaṃ na tat

saddharmapratibādhanaṃ hi tadapi syānnīti bhedānmuneḥ//20//

āryāṃścāpavadanti tannigaditaṃ dharmaṃ ca garhanti yat

sarvaḥ so'bhiniveśadarśanakṛtaḥ kleśo vimūḍhātmanām/

tasmānnābhiniveśadṛṣṭimaline tasminniveśyā matiḥ

śuddhaṃ vastramupaiti raṅgavikṛtiṃ na snehapaṅkāṅkitam//21//

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Other English translations

Obermiller (1931)

The depreciation of a Saint by those possessed of passion and ignorance,

And the contempt regarding the Doctrine taught by him

Is always produced by erroneous views;

Therefore let not your mind become mingled

With the defilement of these views.—

Only clean a garment may be dyed,

But not one that is smeared with grease.

Takasaki (1966)

The fact that people abuse the Sages

And blame the doctrine taught by the Sages,

All this is the Defilement of those whose nature is foolish

And is created by a prejudiced conception;

Therefore, your mind should not be attached

To the dirt of the prejudiced conception;

Indeed, only clean cloth can be dyed

But not one that is spoiled by oil and dust.

Fuchs (2000)

Those blinded by poisons [and possessed of] the nature of ignorance

revile the noble ones and despise the teachings they have spoken.

Since all this stems from a fixated view, mind should not be joined

with polluted vision.

Clean cloth is totally transformed by color, but never is cloth [to be

treated] with oil.

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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