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Ratnagotravibhāga Root Verse V.19

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Verse V.19 Variations

यत्स्यादविक्षिप्तमनोभिरुक्तं
शास्तारमेकं जिनमुद्दिशद्भिः
मोक्षा प्तिसंभारपथानुकूलं
मूर्ध्ना तदप्यार्षमिव प्रतीच्छेत्

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

yatsyādavikṣiptamanobhiruktaṃ
śāstāramekaṃ jinamuddiśadbhiḥ
mokṣā ptisaṃbhārapathānukūlaṃ
mūrdhnā tadapyārṣamiva pratīcchet

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

གང་ཞིག་རྒྱལ་བའི་བསྟན་པ་འབའ་ཞིག་གི །
དབང་བྱས་རྣམ་གཡེང་མེད་ཡིད་ཅན་གྱིས་བཤད། །
ཐར་པ་ཐོབ་པའི་ལམ་དང་རྗེས་མཐུན་པར། །
དེ་ཡང་དྲང་སྲོང་བཀའ་བཞིན་སྤྱི་བོས་བླང་། །

Dege, PHI, 144

Whatever is said by those with undistracted minds
Who recognize the victor alone as their teacher
And accords with the path of the accumulations for attaining liberation
Should be respected as much as [the words of] the seer.

When the Clouds Part, Brunnhölzl, 458

Ce que, relevant uniquement des enseignements du Vainqueur,

Un esprit libre de distraction explique

En accord avec la voie qui mène à la libération,

On le porte au sommet de sa tête comme la parole du Sage.

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

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།དེ་ལྟར་ཡིད་ཆེས་ལུང་དང་རིགས་པ་ལ། །བརྟེན་ནས་བདག་ཉིད་འབའ་ཞིག་དག་ཕྱིར་དང་། །གང་དག་མོས་དགེ་ཕུན་སུམ་ཚོགས་ལྡན་བློ། །དེ་དག་རྗེས་སུ་གཟུང་ཕྱིར་འདི་བཤད་དོ། །ཇི་ལྟར་བཤད་པ་འདི་ལས་བརྩམས་ཏེ་ཚིགས་སུ་བཅད་པ། ཇི་ལྟར་སྒྲོན་གློག་ནོར་བུ་{br}ཉི་ཟླ་ལ། །བརྟེན་ནས་མིག་དང་ལྡན་པ་ལྟ་བ་བཞིན། །དེ་བཞིན་དོན་ཆེན་ཆོས་སྤོབས་འོད་མཛད་པ། །ཐུབ་ལ་བརྟེན་ནས་འདི་ནི་རབ་ཏུ་བཤད། །གང་བཤད་པ་དེ་ལས་བརྩམས་ཏེ་ཚིགས་སུ་བཅད་པ། གང་ཞིག་དོན་ལྡན་ཆོས་དང་ཉེར་འབྲེལ་ཞིང་། །ཁམས་གསུམ་ཀུན་ནས་ཉོན་མོངས་སྤོང་བྱེད་གསུང་། །{br}ཞི་བའི་ཕན་ཡོན་སྟོན་པར་མཛད་པ་གང་། །དེ་ནི་དྲང་སྲོང་གསུང་ཡིན་བཟློག་པ་གཞན། །གང་གིས་བཤད་པ་དེ་ལས་བརྩམས་ཏེ་ཚིགས་སུ་བཅད་པ། གང་ཞིག་རྒྱལ་བའི་བསྟན་པ་འབའ་ཞིག་གིས། །དབང་བྱས་རྣམ་གཡེང་མེད་ཡིད་ཅན་གྱིས་བཤད། །ཐར་པ་ཐོབ་པའི་ལམ་དང་རྗེས་{br}མཐུན་པར། །དེ་ཡང་དྲང་སྲོང་བཀའ་བཞིན་སྤྱི་བོས་བླང་།

[Hereafter, (there follow four) verses that describe on which basis (this treatise) was explained, what caused (its composition), how (it was explained), and what (its characteristics) are. First, there is a verse about its basis and what caused (its composition).]

Thus, on the basis of trustworthy scriptures and reasoning,

I expounded this [treatise] in order to purify just myself

And also for the sake of supporting those who are endowed

With intelligence, faith, and fulfillment of virtue. V.16

[(Next, there is) a verse about how (this treatise) was explained.]

Just as those with eyes [can] see in dependence on

A lamp, lightning, a jewel, the moon, and the sun,

So I expounded this [treatise] in dependence on the sage

Who is the sun that illuminates the dharma of great meaning. V.17

[(There follows) a verse about what (the characteristics of what) was explained are.]

Any utterance that is meaningful, is connected with the words of the dharma,

Relinquishes the afflictions of the three realms,

And teaches the benefit of peace

Is the speech of the seer, while others are its opposite. V.18

[(Next, there is) a verse about (the means) by which it was explained.]

Whatever is said by those with undistracted minds

Who recognize the victor alone as their teacher (J118)

And accords with the path of the accumulations for attaining liberation

Should be respected as much as [the words of] the seer. V.19

itīdamāptāgamayuktisaṃśrayā-

dudāhṛtaṃ kevalamātmaśuddhaye/

dhiyādhimuktyā kuśalopasaṃpadā

samanvitā ye tadanugrahāya ca//16//

pradīpavidyunmaṇicandrabhāskarān

pratītya paśyanti yathā sacakṣuṣaḥ/

mahārthadharmapratibhāprabhākaraṃ

muniṃ pratītyedamudāhṛtaṃ tathā//17//

yadarthavaddharmapadopasaṃhitaṃ

tridhātusaṃkleśani barhaṇa vacaḥ/

bhavecca yacchāntyanuśaṃsadarśakaṃ

taduktamārṣaṃ viparītamanyathā//18//

yatsyādavikṣiptamanobhiruktaṃ

śāstāramekaṃ jinamuddiśadbhiḥ/

mokṣā ptisaṃbhārapathānukūlaṃ

mūrdhnā tadapyārṣamiva pratīcchet//19//

No Chinese commentary defined.

Other English translations

Obermiller (1931)

That which, referring exclusively to the Teaching of the Lord,

Is an explanation (of this Teaching) by one

Whose mind is completely free from distraction,

And agrees with the Path leading to Salvation

Is to be revered as if it were

The Word of the Great Sage himself.

Takasaki (1966)

Whatever is spoken by those whose mind is not distracted

And who refer to the Lord as the only Preceptor,

And is favourable to the Path of the [2] Accumulations which lead to Emancipation,

That is also to be accepted with respect

As if it were taught by the Great Sage.

Fuchs (2000)

Whatever someone has explained with undistracted mind,

exclusively in the light of the Victor's teaching,

and conducive to the path of attaining release,

one should place on one's head as the words of the Sage.

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