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Ratnagotravibhāga Root Verse IV.69

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Verse IV.69 Variations

यथाविकल्पं मणिरत्नम् ईप्सितं धनं परेभ्यो विसृजत्य् अयत्नतः
तथा मुनिर् यत्नम् ऋते यथार्हतः परार्थम् आतिष्ठति नित्यम् आ भवात्

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

yathāvikalpaṃ maṇiratnam īpsitaṃ dhanaṃ parebhyo visṛjaty ayatnataḥ
tathā munir yatnam ṛte yathārhataḥ parārtham ātiṣṭhati nityam ā bhavāt

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

ཇི་ལྟར་ནོར་བུ་རིན་ཆེན་རྟོག་མེད་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། །
གཞན་གྱི་དོན་དུ་སྲིད་པ་ཇི་སྲིད་རྟག་ཏུ་བཞུགས། །

Dege, PHI, 140

Just as the precious jewel without thoughts
Effortlessly grants others their desired gifts,
So the sage always remains without effort as is appropriate
For the sake of others for as long as [saṃsāric] existence lasts.

When the Clouds Part, Brunnhölzl, 450

De même que le Joyau magique procure

Sans effort ni pensée les richesses désirées,

Le Sage restera dans le monde tant que celui-ci durera,

Pour le bien des autres, sans effort

et à proportion de leurs mérites.

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

RGVV Commentary on Verse IV.69

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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)

As the jewel fulfilling all wishes, without effort,

Grants to others the objects desired by them,

Similarly the Sage abides as long as the world exists,

Acting without effort for the sake of others in accordance with their merits.

Takasaki (1966)

Just as the precious jewel, having no thought-construction,

Produces the desired treasure, without effort, for others;

Similarly, the Lord always benefits others, without effort,

According to their merit, as long as the world exists.

Fuchs (2000)

As a precious gem, which is free from thought, fully bestows

the desired riches on others, doing so without any effort,

the Muni always stays for others' sake, as merited by each

and as long as existences last, doing so without any effort.

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