Verse IV.7
Verse IV.7 Variations
करुणा तत्समुद्घातप्रत्ययः सार्वकालिकः
karuṇā tatsamudghātapratyayaḥ sārvakālikaḥ
།ཉེ་བའི་ཉོན་མོངས་བག་ཆགས་སོ།
།དུས་ཀུན་དུ་ནི་དེ་འཇོམས་པའི།
།རྐྱེན་ནི་ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེན་པོ་ཡིན།
Secondary afflictions, and their latent tendencies;
And "the condition for overcoming them
That is [present] at all times," to compassion.
- Les innombrables affections principales et secondaires,
- Ainsi que leurs imprégnations, forment un voile.
- La condition qui à tout moment détruit
- [Les affections] est la grande compassion.
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- 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.
- With Schmithausen, MB is to be read as yā yatra (confirmed by DP gang gang du) instead of J yāvac ca (yā is also found and explained in IV.4c)
- As Schmithausen points out, this verse needs to be connected back to line IV.3d.
- All the instances of "of that"refer to the phrase that immediately precedes them.
- Skt. bodeḥ sattvaḥ parigrahaḥ. This refers to bodhisattvas as the ones who take hold of or attain awakening.
- Both DP and C read "the bhūmis."