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Ratnagotravibhāga Root Verse IV.55

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Verse IV.55 Variations

यद्वद् ब्रह्मा विमानान् न चलति सततं कामधातुप्रविष्टं देवाः पश्यन्ति चैनं विषयरतिहरं दर्षनं तच् च तेषाम्
तद्वद् सद्धर्मकायान् न चलति सुगतः सर्वलोकेषु चैनं भव्याः पश्यन्ति शश्वत्सकलमलहरं दर्शनं तच् च तेषाम्

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

yadvad brahmā vimānān na calati satataṃ kāmadhātupraviṣṭaṃ devāḥ paśyanti cainaṃ viṣayaratiharaṃ darṣanaṃ tac ca teṣām
tadvad saddharmakāyān na calati sugataḥ sarvalokeṣu cainaṃ bhavyāḥ paśyanti śaśvatsakalamalaharaṃ darśanaṃ tac ca teṣām

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

ཇི་ལྟར་ཚངས་རྟག་གཞལ་ཡས་ཁང་ན་མི་གཡོ་འདོད་ཁམས་ཞུགས་པ་དེ། །
ལྷ་རྣམས་ཀྱིས་མཐོང་དེ་མཐོང་དེ་ཡང་ཡུལ་ལ་དགའ་བ་སྤོང་བྱེད་ལྟར། །
དེ་བཞིན་བདེ་གཤེགས་ཆོས་ཀྱི་སྐུ་ལས་མི་བསྐྱོད་འཇིག་རྟེན་ཁམས་ཀུན་དུ། །
སྐལ་ལྡན་གྱིས་མཐོང་དེ་མཐོང་དེ་ཡང་རྟག་ཏུ་དྲི་མ་ཀུན་སེལ་བྱེད། །

Dege, PHI, 139

Just as Brahmā does not move away from his palace and yet his constant manifestation in the desire realm
Is seen by the gods, with their desire for objects being relinquished through this seeing,
So the Sugata does not move away from the kāya of the genuine dharma and yet is seen by the suitable ones
In all worlds, with their stains always being relinquished in their entirety by this seeing.

When the Clouds Part, Brunnhölzl, 447

De même que, sans jamais quitter son palais,

Brahma se manifeste dans le monde du Désir

À la vue des dieux et qu’à cette vision, ces derniers

se détournent des objets [de plaisir],

De même, sans quitter le corps absolu, le Bien-Allé s’introduit

dans toutes les sphères du monde

Où les êtres fortunés le voient, et cette vision leur permet

d’éliminer toutes leurs souillures à jamais.

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

RGVV Commentary on Verse IV.55

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།ཚངས་པ་ཆེན་པོ་བཞིན་{br}ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ནི། ཇི་ལྟར་ཚངས་པ་ཚངས་པ་ཡི། །གནས་ནས་འཕོ་བ་མེད་བཞིན་དུ། །ལྷ་ཡི་གནས་ནི་ཐམས་ཅད་དུ། །སྣང་བ་འབད་མེད་སྟོན་པ་ལྟར། །དེ་བཞིན་ཐུབ་པའི་ཆོས་སྐུ་ལས། །བསྐྱོད་པ་མེད་པར་ཁམས་ཀུན་ཏུ། །སྐལ་ལྡན་རྣམས་ལ་འབད་མེད་པར། །སྤྲུལ་

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པ་དག་གིས་སྟོན་པར་མཛད། །ཇི་ལྟར་ཚངས་རྟག་གཞལ་ཡས་ཁང་ནས་མི་གཡོ་འདོད་ཁམས་ཞུགས་པ་དེ། །ལྷ་རྣམས་ཀྱིས་མཐོང་དེ་མཐོང་དེ་ཡང་ཡུལ་ལ་དགའ་བ་སྤོང་བྱེད་ལྟར། །དེ་བཞིན་བདེ་གཤེགས་ཆོས་ཀྱི་སྐུ་ལས་མི་བསྐྱོད་འཇིག་རྟེན་ཀུན་དུ་དེ། །སྐལ་ལྡན་གྱིས་{br}མཐོང་དེ་ནི་མཐོང་དེ་རྟག་ཏུ་དྲི་མ་ཀུན་སེལ་བྱེད། །སྔོན་གྱི་རང་ཉིད་སྨོན་ལམ་དང་། །ལྷ་རྣམས་ཀྱི་ནི་དགེ་བའི་མཐུས། །ཇི་ལྟར་ཚངས་པ་འབད་མེད་སྣང་། །རང་བྱུང་སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་དེ་བཞིན་ནོ།

(4) (J107) [That sūtra also] says that [buddha activity] is like Mahābrahmā.

Just as Brahmā, without moving away

From the abode belonging to Brahmā,

Effortlessly displays his appearance

Everywhere in the sphere of the gods, IV.53

So the sage, without moving away

From the dharmakāya,

Effortlessly displays himself to the suitable (D125b)

Through emanations in all realms. IV.54

Just as Brahmā does not move away from his palace and yet his constant manifestation in the desire realm

Is seen by the gods, with their desire for objects being relinquished through this seeing,

So the Sugata does not move away from the kāya of the genuine dharma and yet is seen by the suitable ones

In all worlds, with their stains always being relinquished in their entirety by this seeing. IV.55

Just as, by virtue of his own previous aspiration prayers

And as a result of the virtues of the gods,

Brahmā manifests his appearance without effort,

So does the self-arisen one by means of the nirmāṇakāya. IV.56

mahābrahmavad iti /

sarvatra devabhavane brāhmyād avicalan padāt /

pratibhāsaṃ yathā brahmā darśayaty aprayatnataḥ // 53 //

tadvan munir anābhogān nirmāṇaiḥ sarvadhātuṣu /

dharmakāyād avicalan bhavyānām eti darśanam // 54 //

yadvad brahmā vimānān na calati satataṃ kāmadhātupraviṣṭaṃ devāḥ paśyanti cainaṃ

viṣayaratiharaṃ darṣanaṃ tac ca teṣām /

tadvad saddharmakāyān na calati sugataḥ sarvalokeṣu cainaṃ bhavyāḥ paśyanti

śaśvatsakalamalaharaṃ darśanaṃ tac ca teṣām // 55 //

svasyaiva pūrvapraṇidhānayogān marudgaṇānāṃ ca śubhānubhāvāt /

brahmā yathā bhāsam upaity ayatnān nirmāṇakāyena tathā svayaṃbhūḥ // 56 //

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Other English translations

Obermiller (1931)

Just as Brahma, never moving from his abode,

Manifests himself in the World of Desire,

Is seen by the gods, and this perception

Pacifies the desire of the objects (of enjoyment),—

Similarly the Lord, though motionless in his Cosmical Body,

Is seen by the worthy in all the regions of the world,

And this his vision removes for ever all defilement.

Takasaki (1966)

Just as with Brahmā, though he never moves from his palace,

His manifestation, always pervading the World of Desire,

Is seen by gods and causes them to remove the desire of objects;

Similarly with the Lord, though not moving from the Absolute Body,

His sight is seen by the worthy people, in all the worlds,

And causes them to remove all the stains forever.

Fuchs (2000)

When Brahma, never departing from his palace, has manifested in

the desire realm, he is seen by the gods.

This vision incites them to emulate him and to abandon their delight

in [sensuous] objects.

Similarly, without moving from dharmakaya, the Sugata is seen in

all spheres of this world

by beings of karmic fortune. This vision incites them to emulate him

and to dispel all their pollution.

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