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Ratnagotravibhāga Root Verse IV.68

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Verse IV.68 Variations

बुद्धचिन्तामणिं तद्वत् समेत्य पृथगाशयाः
शृण्वन्ति धर्मतां चित्रां न कल्पयति तांश् च सः

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

buddhacintāmaṇiṃ tadvat sametya pṛthagāśayāḥ
śṛṇvanti dharmatāṃ citrāṃ na kalpayati tāṃś ca saḥ

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

།དེ་བཞིན་སངས་རྒྱས་ཡིད་བཞིན་ལ།
བརྟེན་ནས་བསམ་པ་ཐ་དད་རྣམས། །
སྣ་ཚོགས་ཆོས་ནི་ཐོས་གྱུར་ཀྱང་། །
།དེ་ནི་དེ་ལ་རྣམ་མི་རྟོག

Dege, PHI, 140

So those of individual intentions who rely
On the wish-fulfilling jewel of the Buddha
Hear about the nature of phenomena in its various [aspects],
But he does not think about them.

When the Clouds Part, Brunnhölzl, 450

De même, quand ceux dont les désirs diffèrent

S’en remettent au Joyau magique du Bouddha,

Ils entendent toute une variété d’enseignements

Dont le Bouddha n’a pas conçu le moindre.

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

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།ཡིད་བཞིན་ནོར་བུ་བཞིན་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ནི། ཇི་ལྟར་ཡིད་བཞིན་ནོར་བུ་ནི། །རྟོག་པ་མེད་ཀྱང་ཅིག་ཅར་དུ། །སྤྱོད་ཡུལ་གནས་པ་རྣམས་ཀྱི་ནི། །བསམ་ཀུན་སོ་སོར་རྫོགས་བྱེད་ལྟར། །དེ་བཞིན་སངས་རྒྱས་ཡིད་བཞིན་{br}ལ། །བརྟན་ནས་བསམ་པ་ཐ་དད་རྣམས། །སྣ་ཚོགས་ཆོས་ནི་ཐོས་འགྱུར་ཡང་། །དེ་ནི་དེ་ལས་རྣམ་མི་རྟོག །ཇི་ལྟར་ཡིད་བཞིན་ནོར་བུ་རིན་ཆེན་འདོད་པའི་ནོར། །འབད་པ་མེད་པར་གཞན་པ་དག་ལ་རབ་སྟེར་ལྟར། །དེ་བཞིན་ཐུབ་པ་འབད་མེད་ཇི་ལྟར་འོས་པར་ནི། །{br}གཞན་གྱི་དོན་དུ་སྲིད་པ་ཇི་སྲིད་རྟག་ཏུ་བཞུགས།

(6) [That sūtra also] says that [buddha activity] is similar to a wish-fulfilling jewel.

Just as a wish-fulfilling jewel,

Though it is without a thought,

Simultaneously and individually fulfills

All desires of those who are in its reach, IV.67

So those of individual intentions who rely

On the wish-fulfilling jewel of the Buddha

Hear about the nature of phenomena in its various [aspects],

But he does not think about them. IV.68

Just as the precious jewel without thoughts

Effortlessly grants others their desired gifts, (J110)

So the sage always remains without effort as is appropriate

For the sake of others for as long as [saṃsāric] existence lasts. IV.69

cintāmaṇivad iti /

yugapad gocarasthānāṃ sarvābhiprāyapūraṇam /

kurute nirvikalpo ’pi pṛthak cintāmaṇir yathā // 67 //

buddhacintāmaṇiṃ tadvat sametya pṛthagāśayāḥ /

śṛṇvanti dharmatāṃ citrāṃ na kalpayati tāṃś ca saḥ // 68 //

yathāvikalpaṃ maṇiratnam īpsitaṃ dhanaṃ parebhyo visṛjaty ayatnataḥ /

tathā munir yatnam ṛte yathārhataḥ parārtham ātiṣṭhati nityam ā bhavāt // 69 //

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Other English translations

Obermiller (1931)

In a similar way, through reliance upon the Buddha,

Those possessed of different thoughts and inclinations

Come to hear the Doctrine in its various forms.—

But the Buddha has no searching thought regarding them.

Takasaki (1966)

Similarly, those who are of different inclinations,

Having approached the wish-fulfilling gem of the Buddha,

Come to hear the Truth in its various aspects.

But the Buddha has no discrimination regarding them.

Fuchs (2000)

Likewise beings of different ways of thinking,

when they rely on the wish-fulfilling Buddha,

will hear various kinds of teachings,

though he generates no ideas of these.

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