Verse V.24

Ratnagotravibhāga Root Verse V.24

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Verse V.24 Variations

योऽभीक्ष्णं प्रतिसेव्य पापसुहृदः स्याद्वुद्धदुष्टाशयो
मातापित्ररिहद्वधाचरणकृत् संघाग्रभेत्ता नरः
स्यात्तस्यापि ततो विमुक्तिरचिरं धर्मार्थनिध्यानतो
धर्मे यस्य तु मानसं प्रतिहतं तस्मै विमुक्तिः कुतः

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

yo'bhīkṣṇaṃ pratisevya pāpasuhṛdaḥ syādvuddhaduṣṭāśayo
mātāpitrarihadvadhācaraṇakṛt saṃghāgrabhettā naraḥ
syāttasyāpi tato vimuktiraciraṃ dharmārthanidhyānato
dharme yasya tu mānasaṃ pratihataṃ tasmai vimuktiḥ kutaḥ

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

གང་ཞིག་ཡང་ཡང་སྡིག་གྲོགས་བསྟེན་པས་སངས་རྒྱས་ངན་སེམས་ལྡན་གྱུར་དང་། །
ཕ་མ་དགྲ་བཅོམ་གསོད་པར་བྱ་བ་མིན་བྱེད་མཆོག་ཚོགས་འབྱེད་པའི་མི། །
དེ་ཡང་ཆོས་ཉིད་ངེས་པར་བསམས་ན་མྱུར་དུ་དེ་ལས་ཐར་འགྱུར་གྱི། །
གང་ཞིག་ཡིད་ནི་ཆོས་ལ་སྡང་བ་དེ་ལ་ཐར་པ་ག་ལ་ཡོད། །

Dege, PHI, 145

Even persons who, repeatedly relying on bad friends, [injured] a buddha with bad intention,
Committed the acts of killing their mother, father, or an arhat, or split the highest community
Will be swiftly liberated from these [actions] through being absorbed in the meaning of the dharma,
But how could there be liberation in those whose minds are hostile toward the dharma?

When the Clouds Part, Brunnhölzl, 459

L’individu qui, influencé par ses fréquentations malsaines,

a eu de mauvaises pensées à l’endroit du Bouddha,

A commis l’inadmissible en tuant son père, sa mère ou un arhat,

et qui crée un schisme dans l’assemblée suprême,

Celui-là aussi s’affranchira vite de ces [crimes]

dès lors qu’il réfléchira vraiment à l’essence du réel.

Mais comment se libérera celui qui hait le Dharma ?

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

RGVV Commentary on Verse V.24

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།ཉམས་པའི་འབྲས་བུ་ལས་བརྩམས་ཏེ་ཚིགས་སུ་བཅད་པ། ཇི་ལྟར་ཟབ་མོའི་ཆོས་རྣམས་དེ་བཞིན་མཁས་པ་རྣམས་ཀྱིས་མེ་དང་ནི། །མི་བཟད་སྦྲུལ་གདུག་གཤེད་

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མ་དང་ནི་ཐོག་ལའང་ཤིན་ཏུ་འཇིགས་མི་བྱ། །མེ་སྦྲུལ་དགྲ་དང་རྡོ་རྗེའི་མེས་ནི་སྲོག་དང་བྲལ་བ་ཙམ་བྱེད་དེ། །དེ་ལས་མནར་མེད་རྣམས་ཀྱི་འགྲོ་བ་ཤིན་ཏུ་འཇིགས་པར་འགྲོ་མི་འགྱུར། །གང་ཞིག་ཡང་ཡང་སྡིག་གྲོགས་བསྟེན་པས་སངས་རྒྱས་ངན་སེམས་ལྡན་གྱུར་དང་། །ཕ་མ་དགྲ་བཅོམ་གསོད་{br}པ་བྱ་བ་མིན་བྱེད་མཆོག་ཚོགས་འབྱེད་པའི་མི། །དེ་ཡང་ཆོས་ཉིད་ངེས་པར་བསམས་པས་མྱུར་དུ་དེ་ལས་ཐར་འགྱུར་གྱི། །གང་ཞིག་ཡིད་ནི་ཆོས་ལ་སྡང་བ་དེ་ལ་ཐར་པ་ག་ལ་ཡོད།

[(There follow two) verses about the result of deviating (from the dharma).]

The wise should not be as deeply afraid of fire, terrible snake poison, murderers, or lightning

As they should be of the loss of the profound dharma. (D129a)

Fire, snakes, enemies, and lightning may [at most] end one’s life,

But one would not wander to the most fearsome realm of those in Avīci through such causes. V.23 (J119)

Even persons who, repeatedly relying on bad friends, [injured] a buddha with bad intention,

Committed the acts of killing their mother, father, or an arhat, or split the highest community

Will be swiftly liberated from these [actions] through being absorbed in the meaning of the dharma,

But how could there be liberation in those whose minds are hostile toward the dharma? V.24

nāgnernograviṣādaherna vadhakānnaivāśanibhyastathā

bhetavyaṃ viduṣāmatīva tu yathā gambhīradharmakṣateḥ/

kuryurjīvitaviprayogamanalavyālārivajrāgnaya-

staddhetorna punarvrajedatibhayāmāvīcikānāṃ gatim//23//

yo'bhīkṣṇaṃ pratisevya pāpasuhṛdaḥ syādvuddhaduṣṭāśayo

mātāpitrarihadvadhācaraṇakṛt saṃghāgrabhettā naraḥ/

syāttasyāpi tato vimuktiraciraṃ dharmārthanidhyānato

dharme yasya tu mānasaṃ pratihataṃ tasmai vimuktiḥ kutaḥ//24//

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Other English translations

Obermiller (1931)

Even one who, repeatedly relying on bad friends,

Is hostile to the Buddha and commits the vilest of sins

In killing father, mother and the Saints,

And sowing dissention among the Highest congregation,—

Even that man can speedily become delivered (from sin),

If he reflects over tho Absolute Essence.

But where is Salvation for one

Who in his mind is hostile to the Doctrine?—

Takasaki (1966)

Even one who, repeatedly serving bad friends,

Is hostile to the Buddha, and commits the acts

Of killing mother, father, and the Saints,

And breaks the unity of the Highest Community,

Even that one can quickly become delivered from that sin

If he meditates upon the meaning of the Doctrine;

But, how would it be possible for the Liberation to arise

In one whose mind is hostile to the Doctrine!

Fuchs (2000)

Even someone who has relied on evil friends again and again and

thus heeded harmful intentions towards a buddha,

who has committed one of the most heinous acts—killing his father,

mother, or an arhat, or splitting the sublime Assembly—

will be quickly released from these, once genuinely reflecting the

dharmata.

But where would liberation be for someone whose mind is hostile to

Dharma?

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Academic notes

arhat - A person who has reached nirvāṇa by eliminating the three poisons of attachment, hatred and ignorance having followed the path of seeking individual liberation as a Śrāvaka or a Pratyekabuddha. An arhat, thus, is a person who has overcome the cause of rebirth in the cycle of existence and will not take an ordinary birth again. Skt. अर्हत् Tib. དགྲ་བཅོམ་པ། Ch. 阿羅漢