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Ratnagotravibhāga Root Verse IV.56

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Verse IV.56 Variations

स्वस्यैव पूर्वप्रणिधानयोगान् मरुद्गणानां च शुभानुभावात्
ब्रह्मा यथा भासम् उपैत्य् अयत्नान् निर्माणकायेन तथा स्वयंभूः

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

svasyaiva pūrvapraṇidhānayogān marudgaṇānāṃ ca śubhānubhāvāt
brahmā yathā bhāsam upaity ayatnān nirmāṇakāyena tathā svayaṃbhūḥ

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

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། །

Dege, PHI, 139

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.

When the Clouds Part, Brunnhölzl, 447

Par le pouvoir de ses propres souhaits antérieurs

Et celui des actes vertueux des êtres divins,

Brahma se manifeste sans effort. De même en est-il

Pour les corps d’apparition de celui qui est né de lui-même.

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

RGVV Commentary on Verse IV.56

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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)

As owing to the vows of Brahma himself9

His vision is perceived without effort,

So is the Apparitional form (of the Buddha),

Which becomes originated by itself.

Takasaki (1966)

Because of his own original vow,

And of the pure experiences of the multitudes of gods,

Brahmā manifests his apparition without any effort;

Similar is the Buddha, by means of his Apparitional Body.

Fuchs (2000)

By his own former wishing prayers

and the power of the virtue of the gods

Brahma appears without deliberate effort.

So does the self-sprung illusory kaya.

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