Verse I.63
Verse I.63 Variations
न जातु सा द्यौरिव याति विक्रियाम्
आगन्तुकै रागमलादिभिस्त्वसा-
वुपैति संक्लेशमभूतकल्पजैः
na jātu sā dyauriva yāti vikriyām
āgantukai rāgamalādibhistvasā-
vupaiti saṃkleśamabhūtakalpajaiḥ
།དེ་ནི་ནམ་མཁའ་བཞིན་དུ་འགྱུར་མེད་དེ།
།ཡང་དག་མིན་རྟོགས་ལས་བྱུང་འདོད་ཆགས་སོགས།
།གློ་བུར་དྲི་མས་དེ་ཉོན་མོངས་མི་འགྱུར།
Is completely unchanging, just like space.
It is not afflicted by adventitious stains,
Such as desire, born from false imagination.
- La nature de l’esprit, qui est luminosité,
- Est immuable comme l’espace.
- Nées d’idées fausses, les souillures adventices
- Comme l’attachement ne l’affecteront jamais.
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Other English translations[edit]
Holmes (1985) [3]
- This true nature of the mind - clarity,
- is, like space, unchanging; not becoming
- defiled by desire and so on, passing impurities
- which from improper thinking spring.
Fuchs (2000) [4]
- This clear and luminous nature of mind
- is as changeless as space. It is not afflicted
- by desire and so on, the adventitious stains,
- which are sprung from incorrect thoughts.
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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.
- Holmes, Ken & Katia. The Changeless Nature. Eskdalemuir, Scotland: Karma Drubgyud Darjay Ling, 1985.
- 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.