Verse IV.48

Ratnagotravibhāga Root Verse IV.48

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Verse IV.48 Variations

ग्रीष्मान्ते ऽम्बुधरेष्व् असत्सु मनुजा व्योम्न्य् अप्रचाराः खगा वर्षास्व् अप्य् अतिवर्षणप्रपतनात् प्रेताः क्षितौ दुःखिताः
अप्रादुर्भावनोदये ऽपि करुणामेघाभ्रधर्माम्भसो धर्माकाङ्क्षिणि धर्मताप्रतिहते लोके च सैवोपमा

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

grīṣmānte ’mbudhareṣv asatsu manujā vyomny apracārāḥ khagā varṣāsv apy ativarṣaṇaprapatanāt pretāḥ kṣitau duḥkhitāḥ
aprādurbhāvanodaye ’pi karuṇāmeghābhradharmāmbhaso dharmākāṅkṣiṇi dharmatāpratihate loke ca saivopamā

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

དཔྱིད་མཐར་སྤྲིན་མེད་པ་ནི་མི་དང་མཁའ་མི་རྒྱུ་བའི་བྱ་དག་དང་། །
དབྱར་ཚེ་ས་ལ་ཆར་བབས་པ་ན་ཡི་དགས་དག་ནི་སྡུག་པ་ལྟར། །
སྙིང་རྗེའི་སྤྲིན་ཚོགས་དག་གིས་ཆོས་ཆུ་བྱུང་དང་མ་བྱུང་བ་ལས་ཀྱང་། །
ཆོས་འདོད་པ་དང་ཆོས་ལ་སྡང་བའི་འཇིག་རྟེན་དག་ན་དཔེ་དེ་ཉིད། །

Dege, PHI, 138

At the end of the summer, when there are no clouds, humans and the birds that cannot fly in the sky
[Suffer] on the ground, but hungry ghosts suffer due to the abundance of rainfall during the rainy season.
Similarly, those in the world who desire the dharma and those who are hostile toward the dharma [suffer], respectively,
When the water of the dharma from the cloud banks of compassion does not appear or appears.

When the Clouds Part, Brunnhölzl, 445-446

À la fin du printemps, les hommes et les oiseaux

qui ne volent pas souffrent de l’absence des nuages, Alors que les prétas pâtissent des pluies d’été qui s’abattent sur la terre. De même, suivant que, des nuées de la compassion, l’eau des enseignements jaillit ou non, Ceux qui, dans les mondes, aspirent au Dharma et ceux qui lui sont hostiles correspondent aux éléments de la comparaison.

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

RGVV Commentary on Verse IV.48

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།ལྟོས་པ་མེད་པར་འཇུག་པ་ལས་ནི། ཐེག་པ་མཆོག་ལ་དང་བ་དང་། །བར་མ་དང་ནི་སྡང་བ་ཡི། །ཕུང་པོ་གསུམ་ནི་མི་དག་དང་། །རྨ་བྱ་དང་ནི་ཡི་དགས་འདྲ། །དཔྱིད་མཐར་{br}སྤྲིན་མེད་པ་ན་མི་དང་མཁའ་མི་རྒྱུ་བའི་བྱ་དག་དང་། །དབྱར་ཚེ་ས་ལ་ཆར་བབ་པས་ན་ཡི་དགས་དག་ནི་སྡུག་པ་ལྟར། །སྙིང་རྗེའི་སྤྲིན་ཚོགས་དག་གིས་ཆོས་ཆུ་བྱུང་དང་མ་བྱུང་བ་ལས་ཀྱང་། །ཆོས་འདོད་པ་དང་ཆོས་ལ་སྡང་བའི་འཇིག་རྟེན་ན་ནི་དཔེ་དེ་ཉིད། །ཐིགས་པ་རགས་འབེབས་རྡོ་ཚན་དང་{br}ནི་རྡོ་རྗེའི་མེ་ནི་འབེབས་པས་ན། །སྲོག་ཆགས་ཕྲ་དང་རི་སུལ་སོང་བ་དག་ལ་ཇི་ལྟར་སྤྲིན་ལྟོས་མེད། །ཕྲ་དང་རྒྱ་ཆེན་རིགས་ཐབས་ཚུལ་གྱིས་མཁྱེན་པ་དང་ནི་བརྩེ་བའི་སྤྲིན། །ཉོན་མོངས་དག་འགྱུར་བདག་ལྟའི་བག་ཆགས་དག་ལས་རྣམ་པ་ཀུན་ལྟོས་མེད།

As for [buddha activity’s] manifesting indifferently:

Those who are very open, those who are intermediate,

And those who are hostile toward the highest yāna,

These three categories of [beings] respectively

Resemble humans, peacocks, and hungry ghosts. IV.47

At the end of the summer, when there are no clouds, humans and the birds that cannot fly in the sky

[Suffer] on the ground, but hungry ghosts suffer due to the abundance of rainfall during the rainy season. (J106)

Similarly, those in the world who desire the dharma and those who are hostile toward the dharma [suffer], respectively,

When the water of the dharma from the cloud banks of compassion does not appear or appears. IV.48

By raining down thick drops and bringing down hail and lightning,

Clouds are indifferent toward subtle creatures and those who travel rocky terrains.

Likewise, the cloud of prajñā and compassion, through its subtle and vast means, methods, and applications, P131a)

Is indifferent in all respects toward those with afflictions and those with the latencies of views about a self. IV.49

nirapekṣapravṛttau /

yānāgre ’bhiprasannānāṃ madhyānāṃ pratighātinām /

manuṣyacātakapretasadṛśā rāśayas trayaḥ // 47 //

grīṣmānte ’mbudhareṣv asatsu manujā vyomny apracārāḥ khagā varṣāsv apy

ativarṣaṇaprapatanāt pretāḥ kṣitau duḥkhitāḥ /

aprādurbhāvanodaye ’pi karuṇāmeghābhradharmāmbhaso dharmākāṅkṣiṇi dharmatāpratihate

loke ca saivopamā // 48 //

sthūlair bindunipātanair aśanibhir vajrāgnisaṃpātanaiḥ sūkṣmaprāṇakaśailadeśagamikān

nāpekṣate toyadaḥ /

sūkṣmaudārikayuktyupāyavidhibhiḥ prajñākṛpāmbhodharas tadvat kleśagatān dṛṣṭyanuśayān

nāpekṣate sarvathā // 49 //

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Other English translations

Obermiller (1931)

When, at the end of spring, there are no clouds,

The human beings and the birds that do not move in the skies are distressed,

And, on the contrary, when, in summer-time,

The rain descends on earth, the ghosts are suffering;

Similar is the state of the living beings

Desirous of the Doctrine and hostile to it,

When, from the clouds of Commiseration,

The waters of the Doctrine descend or not.

Takasaki (1966)

Towards the end of the summer, being of no cloud,

Men and those birds who cannot fly in the sky

Experience sufferings [from lack of rain];

In the rainy season, however, because of much rainfall,

The ghosts in the ground experience sufferings;

In the case of the living beings in the world,

Those desirous of the Doctrine and those hostile to it,

The non-arising and the arising of the water of Doctrine

From the clouds of Compassion [cause suffering in each turn];

This is the point of similarity.

Fuchs (2000)

At the end of spring, when there are no clouds, human beings and

the birds that rarely fly

[are unhappy or neutral, respectively]. When rain is falling in

summertime, the craving spirits suffer.

Similar to this example, the arising and non-arising of the Dharmarain

from the host of clouds of compassion

also [leads to opposite reactions] in worldly beings who long for

Dharma or are hostile to it, respectively.

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