Verse I.64

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Verse I.64 Variations

नाभिनिर्वर्तयत्येनं कर्मक्लेशाम्बुसंचयः
न निर्दहत्युदीर्णोऽपि मृत्युव्याधिजरानलः

nābhinirvartayatyenaṃ karmakleśāmbusaṃcayaḥ
na nirdahatyudīrṇo'pi mṛtyuvyādhijarānalaḥ

E. H. Johnston as input by the University of the West.^[1]

།ལས་དང་ཉོན་མོངས་ཆུ་སོགས་ཀྱིས།
།འདི་ནི་མངོན་པར་འགྲུབ་མིན་ཏེ།
།འཆི་དང་ན་དང་རྒ་བའི་མེ།
།མི་བཟད་པས་ཀྱང་འཚིག་མི་འགྱུར།

Dege, PHI, 114

The mass of water-like karma
And afflictions does not generate it,
Nor do the raging fires of death,
Sickness, and aging consume it.

When the Clouds Part, Brunnhölzl, 376 ^[2]

L’eau des affections et des actes

Ne saurait la produire, guère plus

Que ne sauraient la consumer les feux insupportables

De la maladie, de la vieillesse et de la mort.

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

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kathamanenākāśadṛṣṭāntena tathāgatadhātoraśuddhāvasthāyāmavikāradharmatā paridīpitā/ taducyate/

nābhinirvartayatyenaṃ karmakleśāmbusaṃcayaḥ

na nirdahatyudīrṇo'pi mṛtyuvyādhijarānalaḥ//64//

yadvadayoniśomanaskāravātamaṇḍalasaṃbhūta karmakleśodakarāśiṃ pratītya skandhadhātvāyatanalokanirvṛttyā cittaprakṛtivyomadhātorvivarto na bhavati/ tadvadayoniśomanaskārakarmakleśavāyvapskandhapratiṣṭhitasya skandhadhātvāyatanalokasyāstaṃgamāya mṛtyuvyādhijarāgniskandhasamudayādapi tadasaṃvarto veditavyaḥ/ ityevamaśuddhāvasthāyāṃ bhājanalokavadaśeṣakleśakarmajanmasaṃkleśasamudayāstagamaṃ'pyākāśavadasaṃskṛtasya tathāgatadhātoranutpādānirodhādatyantamavikāradharmatā paridīpitā/ eṣa ca prakṛtiviśuddhimukhaṃ dharmālokamukhamārabhyākāśadṛṣṭānto vistareṇa yathāsūtramanugantavyaḥ/ kavirmārṣā kleśāḥ/ āloko viśuddhiḥ/ durbalāḥ kleśāḥ/ balavatī vipaśyanā/ āgantukāḥ kleśāḥ/ mūlaviśuddhā prakṛtiḥ/ parikalpāḥ kleśāḥ/ aparikalpā prakṛtiḥ/ tadyathā mārṣā iyaṃ mahāpṛthivyapsu pratiṣṭhitā/ āpo vāyau pratiṣṭhitāḥ/ vāyurākāśe pratiṣṭhitaḥ/ apratiṣṭhitaṃ cākāśama/ evameṣāṃ caturṇā dhātūnāṃ pṛthivīdhātorabdhātorvāyudhātorākāśadhātureva balī yo dṛḍho'calo'nupacayo 'napacayo'nutpanno'niruddhaḥ sthitaḥ svarasayogena/ tatra ya ete trayo dhātavasta utpādabhaṅgayuktā anavasthitā acirasthāyinaḥ/ dṛśyata eṣāṃ vikāro na punarākāśadhātoḥ kaścidvikāraḥ/ evameva skandhadhātvāyatanāni karmakleśapratiṣṭhitāni/ karmakleśā ayoniśomanaskārapratiṣṭhitāḥ/ ayoniśomanaskāraḥ prakṛtipariśuddhipratiṣṭhitaḥ/ tata ucyate prakṛtiprabhāsvaraṃ cittamāgantukairupakleśairupakliśyata iti/ tatra paścādyo'yoniśomanaskāro ye ca karmakleśā yāni ca skandhadhātvāyatanāni sarva ete dharmā hetupratyayasaṃgṛhītā utpadyante hetupratyayavisāmagrayā nirudhyante/ yā punaḥ sā prakṛtistasyā na heturna pratyayo na sāmagrī notpādo na nirodhaḥ/ tatra yathākāśadhātustathā prakṛtiḥ/ yathā vāyudhātustathāyoniśomanasikāraḥ/ yathābdhātustathā karmakleśāḥ/ yathā pṛthivīdhātustathā skandhadhātvāyatanāni/ tata ucyante sarvadharmā asāramūlā apratiṣṭhānamūlāḥ śuddhamūlā amūlamūlā iti/

uktamaśuddhāvasthāyāmavikāralakṣaṇamārabhya prakṛterākāśadhātusādharmya tadāśritasyāyoniśomanasikārasya karmakleśānāṃ ca hetulakṣaṇamārabhya vāyudhātusādharmyamabdhātusādharmya ca tatprabhavasya skandhadhātvāyatanasya vipākalakṣaṇamārabhya pṛthivīdhātusādharmyam/

Other English translations[edit]

Obermiller (1931) ^[3]

It does not become produced

By the waters of the Biotic Force, of Desire and the rest,

And it cannot be consumed by the violent fires

Of death, of illness, and infirmity.

Takasaki (1966) ^[4]

The accumulation of water-like Active Force and Defilements

Cannot produce this space-like [Innate Mind],

And even the growing fires of death, of illness and old age

Cannot consume [this Innate Mind].

Fuchs (2000) ^[5]

The nature of mind as the element of space

does not [depend upon] causes or conditions,

nor does it [depend on] a gathering of these.

It has neither arising, cessation, nor abiding.

Textual sources[edit]

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Academic notes[edit]

Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon Unicode Input
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.
Obermiller, E. "The Sublime Science of the Great Vehicle to Salvation Being a Manual of Buddhist Monism." Acta Orientalia IX (1931), pp. 81-306.
Takasaki, Jikido. A Study on the Ratnagotravibhāga (Uttaratantra): Being a Treatise on the Tathāgatagarbha Theory of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Serie Orientale Roma 33. Roma: Istituto Italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente (ISMEO), 1966.
Fuchs, Rosemarie, trans. Buddha Nature: The Mahayana Uttaratantra Shastra. Commentary by Jamgon Kongtrul and explanations by Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso. Ithaca, N. Y.: Snow Lion Publications, 2000.

[1] Digital Sanskrit Buddhist Canon Unicode Input

[2] 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.

[3] Obermiller, E. "The Sublime Science of the Great Vehicle to Salvation Being a Manual of Buddhist Monism." Acta Orientalia IX (1931), pp. 81-306.

[4] Takasaki, Jikido. A Study on the Ratnagotravibhāga (Uttaratantra): Being a Treatise on the Tathāgatagarbha Theory of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Serie Orientale Roma 33. Roma: Istituto Italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente (ISMEO), 1966.

[5] Fuchs, Rosemarie, trans. Buddha Nature: The Mahayana Uttaratantra Shastra. Commentary by Jamgon Kongtrul and explanations by Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso. Ithaca, N. Y.: Snow Lion Publications, 2000.

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