Verse II.71

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|EnglishCommentary=The summarized meaning of this is to be understood through [the following] four verses.
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::'''It is inconceivable because it is inexpressible.'''
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::'''It is inexpressible because it is the ultimate.'''
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::'''It is the ultimate because it is incomprehensible by reason'''.
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::'''It is incomprehensible by reason because it is immeasurable'''.<ref>Takasaki remarks that vyanumeya (DP ''dpag bya min'') here and in the next line should read ''vyupameya'' since the latter fits better with its referent ''upamanivṛttitaḥ'' in II.69. VT (fol. 14v7) confirms the reading ''(vi)anumeya'' while glossing it as ''(vy)upamā''.</ref> II.70
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::'''It is immeasurable because it is unsurpassable.'''
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::'''It is unsurpassable because it is not included [in saṃsāra or nirvāṇa]'''.
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::'''It is not included [in them] because it does not abide [in either one]'''
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::'''Since it lacks conceptions about their flaws and qualities, respectively'''. II.71
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::'''Due to the [first] five reasons, [buddhahood] is subtle'''
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::'''And therefore is inconceivable in terms of the dharmakāya'''.
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::'''Due to the sixth one, it is not [manifest in] its truly real state'''
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::'''And therefore is inconceivable in terms of the rūpakāya'''. II.72
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::'''By virtue of the qualities of unsurpassable wisdom and great compassion''',
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::'''The victors, who have accomplished [all] qualities, are inconceivable'''.
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::'''Therefore, this final stage of the self-arisen ones is not even known'''
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::'''By the great seers who have obtained the empowerment'''.<ref>This refers to bodhisattvas on the tenth bhūmi who receive an empowerment through light rays from all buddhas.</ref> II.73
 
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Ratnagotravibhāga Root Verse II.71

Verse II.71 Variations

व्यनुमेयोऽनुत्तरत्वादानुत्तर्यमनुद्‍ग्रहात्
अनुद्‍ग्रहोऽप्रतिष्ठानादगुणदोषाविकल्पनात्
E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West.[1]
vyanumeyo'nuttaratvādānuttaryamanudgrahāt
anudgraho'pratiṣṭhānādaguṇadoṣāvikalpanāt
E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West.[2]
།དཔག་མིན་བླ་ན་མེད་པའི་ཕྱིར།
།བླ་ན་མེད་པ་མ་བསྡུས་ཕྱིར།
།མ་བསྡུས་གནས་པ་མེད་ཕྱིར་ཏེ།
།ཡོན་ཏན་སྐྱོན་རྟོག་མེད་ཕྱིར་རོ།
It is immeasurable because it is unsurpassable.
It is unsurpassable because it is not included [in saṃsāra or nirvāṇa].
It is not included [in them] because it does not abide [in either one]
Since it lacks conceptions about their flaws and qualities, respectively.
On ne peut pas l’inférer parce que rien ne lui est supérieur ;
Rien ne lui est supérieur parce qu’on ne peut à rien le ramener ;
On ne peut à rien le ramener parce qu’il ne se trouve nulle part ;
Il ne se trouve nulle part parce qu’il n’a pas les idées
de qualité et de défaut.

RGVV Commentary on Verse II.71

།འདིའི་བསྡུས་པའི་དོན་ནི་ཚིགས་སུ་བཅད་པ་བཞིས་རིག་{br}པར་བྱ་སྟེ། བསམ་མེད་བརྗོད་དུ་མེད་ཕྱིར་ཏེ། །བརྗོད་མེད་དོན་དམ་ཡིན་ཕྱིར་རོ། །དོན་དམ་བརྟག་བྱ་མིན་ཕྱིར་ཏེ། །བརྟག་མིན་རྗེས་དཔག་བྱ་མིན་ཕྱིར། །དཔག་མིན་བླ་ན་མེད་པའི་ཕྱིར། །བླ་ན་མེད་པ་མ་བསྡུས་ཕྱིར། །མ་བསྡུས་གནས་པ་མེད་ཕྱིར་ཏེ། །ཡོན་ཏན་སྐྱོན་{br}རྟོགས་མེད་ཕྱིར་རོ། །རྒྱུ་ལྔ་དག་གིས་ཕྲ་བའི་ཕྱིར། །ཆོས་སྐུ་བསམ་མི་ཁྱབ་པ་སྟེ། །དྲུག་པས་དེ་ཡི་དངོས་མིན་ཕྱིར། །གཟུགས་སྐུ་བསམ་གྱིས་མི་ཁྱབ་པའོ། །བླ་མེད་ཡེ་ཤེས་ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་སོགས་ཡོན་ཏན་གྱིས། །ཡོན་ཏན་ཕ་རོལ་བྱོན་པའི་རྒྱལ་བ་བསམ་མི་ཁྱབ། །{br}དེས་ན་རང་བྱུང་རྣམས་ཀྱི་ཐ་མའི་ཚུལ་འདི་ནི། །དྲང་སྲོང་ཆེན་པོ་དབང་ཐོབ་རྣམས་ཀྱིས་ཀྱང་རིག་མིན།

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  1. Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon Unicode Input
  2. Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon Unicode Input
  3. Brunnhölzl, Karl. When the Clouds Part: The Uttaratantra and its Meditative Tradition as a Bridge between Sūtra and Tantra. Boston: Snow Lion Publications, an imprint of Shambhala Publications, 2014.
  4. Takasaki remarks that vyanumeya (DP dpag bya min) here and in the next line should read vyupameya since the latter fits better with its referent upamanivṛttitaḥ in II.69. VT (fol. 14v7) confirms the reading (vi)anumeya while glossing it as (vy)upamā.
  5. This refers to bodhisattvas on the tenth bhūmi who receive an empowerment through light rays from all buddhas.