Verse I.101

Ratnagotravibhāga Root Verse I.101

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यद्वत् स्याद्विजुगुप्सितं जलरुहं संमिञ्जि तं दिव्यदृक् तद्‍गर्भस्थितमभ्युदीक्ष्य सुगतं पत्राणि संछेदयेत्
रागद्वेषमलादिकोशनिवृतं संबुद्धगर्भं जगत्
कारुण्यादवलोक्य तन्निवरणं निर्हन्ति तद्वन्मुनिः

yadvat syādvijugupsitaṃ jalaruhaṃ saṃmiñji taṃ divyadṛk tadgarbhasthitamabhyudīkṣya sugataṃ patrāṇi saṃchedayet
rāgadveṣamalādikośanivṛtaṃ saṃbuddhagarbhaṃ jagat
kāruṇyādavalokya tannivaraṇaṃ nirhanti tadvanmuniḥ

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

།ཇི་ལྟར་མི་སྡུག་པདྨ་ཟུམ་ལ་བདེ་བར་གཤེགས་པ་ནི།
།དེ་ཡི་ཁོང་གནས་ལྷ་མིག་མཐོང་ནས་འདབ་མ་གཅོད་བྱེད་ལྟར།
།ཆགས་སྡང་སོགས་དྲི་སྦུབས་བསྒྲིབས་རྫོགས་སངས་སྙིང་པོ་འགྲོ་གཟིགས་ཏེ།
།ཐུགས་རྗེས་ཐུབ་པ་དེ་བཞིན་སྒྲིབ་པ་དེ་ནི་འཇོམས་པར་མཛད།

Dege, PHI, 117

Just as someone with the divine eye would perceive an ugly shriveled lotus
And a sugata dwelling enclosed in it, thus cutting apart its petals,
So the sage beholds the buddha heart obscured by the sheaths of the stains such as desire and hatred,
Thus annihilating its obscurations out of his compassion for the world.

When the Clouds Part, Brunnhölzl, 394

L’œil divin qui voit un bouddha enfermé dans un lotus immonde

Arrache les pétales de la fleur. De même, le sage qui voit dans chaque être la quintessence des parfaits bouddhas enfermée dans les souillures de l’attachement, de la haine et des autres poisons Élimine ces voiles par compassion.

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

RGVV Commentary on Verse I.101

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།ཉོན་མོངས་པ་ནི་པདྨ་ངན་པའི་སྦུབས་དང་འདྲ་ལ། དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པའི་ཁམས་ནི་པདྨ་ལྟ་བུ་སྟེ། ཇི་ལྟར་མདོག་ངན་པདྨ་འི་ཁོང་གནས་པ། །མཚན་སྟོང་གིས་འབར་དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པ་ནི། །དྲི་མེད་ལྷ་ཡི་མིག་ལྡན་མིས་{br}མཐོང་ནས། །ཆུ་སྐྱེས་པདྨ་འི་སྦུབས་ནས་འབྱིན་བྱེད་པ། །དེ་བཞིན་བདེ་གཤེགས་མནར་མེད་རྣམས་ལ་ཡང་། །སངས་རྒྱས་སྤྱན་གྱིས་རང་ཆོས་ཉིད་གཟིགས་ཏེ། །སྒྲིབ་མེད་ཕྱི་མའི་མུར་གནས་ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཡི། །བདག་ཅག་སྒྲིབ་པ་ལས་ནི་གྲོལ་བར་བྱེད། །ཇི་ལྟར་མི་སྡུག་པདྨ་{br}ཟུམ་ལ་བདེ་བར་གཤེགས་པ་ནི། །དེ་ཡི་ཁོང་གནས་ལྷ་མིག་མཐོང་ནས་འདབ་མ་གཅོད་བྱེད་ལྟར། །ཆགས་སྡང་སོགས་དྲི་སྦུབས་བསྒྲིབས་རྫོགས་སངས་སྙིང་པོའི་འགྲོ་གཟིགས་ཏེ། །ཐུགས་རྗེས་ཐུབ་པ་དེ་བཞིན་སྒྲིབ་པ་དེ་ནི་འཇོམས་པར་མཛད།

Suppose a man with the stainless divine eye were to see

A tathāgata shining with a thousand marks,

Dwelling enclosed in a fading lotus,

And thus would free him from the sheath of the lotus petals. I.99

Similarly, the Sugata beholds his own true nature {P111a}

With his buddha eye even in those who dwell in the Avīci [hell]

And thus, as the one who is unobscured, remains until the end of time,

And has the character of compassion, frees it from the obscurations. I.100 {J61}

Just as someone with the divine eye would perceive an ugly shriveled lotus

And a sugata dwelling enclosed in it, thus cutting apart its petals,

So the sage beholds the buddha heart obscured by the sheaths of the stains such as desire and hatred,

Thus annihilating its obscurations out of his compassion for the world. I.101

[In the second example,] the afflictions are like the insects {D107a} that are bees, while the tathāgata element resembles honey.

kutsitapadmakośasadṛśāḥ kleśāḥ/ buddhavattathāgatadhāturiti/

yathā vivarṇāmbujagarbhaveṣṭitaṃ

tathāgataṃ dīptasahasralakṣaṇam/

naraḥ samīkṣyāmaladivyalocano

vimocayedambujapattrakośataḥ//99//

vilokya tadvat sugataḥ svadharmatā-

mavīcisaṃstheṣvapi buddhacakṣuṣā/

vimocayatyāvaraṇādanāvṛto

'parāntakoṭīsthitakaḥ kṛpātmakaḥ//100

yadvat syādvijugupsitaṃ jalaruhaṃ saṃmiñji taṃ divyadṛk tadgarbhasthitamabhyudīkṣya sugataṃ patrāṇi saṃchedayet/

rāgadveṣamalādikośanivṛtaṃ saṃbuddhagarbhaṃ jagat

kāruṇyādavalokya tannivaraṇaṃ nirhanti tadvanmuniḥ//101//

問曰華佛譬喻為明何義答曰言萎華者喻諸煩惱言諸佛者喻如來藏偈曰

功德莊嚴佛 住於萎華中 淨天眼者見 去花顯諸佛 佛眼觀自法 遍一切眾生 下至阿鼻獄 具足如來藏 自處常住際 以慈悲方便 令一切眾生 遠離諸障礙 如朽故華中 有諸佛如來 天眼者見知 除去萎華葉 如來亦如是 見貪煩惱垢 不淨眾生中 具足如來藏 以大慈悲心 憐愍世間故 為一切眾生 除煩惱花葉 問曰蜂蜜譬喻為明何義答曰言群蜂者喻諸煩惱言美蜜者喻如來藏偈言

上妙美味蜜 為群蜂圍遶 須者設方便 散蜂而取蜜 如來亦如是 以一切智眼 見諸煩惱蜂 圍遶佛性蜜 以大方便力 散彼煩惱蜂 顯出如來藏 如取蜜受用 猶如百千億 那由他諸虫 遮障微妙蜜 無有能近者 有智者須蜜 殺害彼諸虫

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取上味美蜜 隨意而受用

無漏智如蜜 在眾生身中 煩惱如毒虫 如來所殺害

Other English translations

Obermiller (1931)

Just as a person possessed of divine sight

Sees in an ugly lotus flower with folded leaves

The Buddha who abides in its interior,

And rends asunder the petals (in order to release him).

In the same way the Lord perceives the Essence of the Supreme Buddha

Existing in all that lives, but obscured by lust, hatred and other coverings of defilement,

And, full of mercy, vanquishes these Obscurations.

Takasaki (1966)

Just as a person of divine sight perceives

A faded and ugly lotus flower and the Buddha within it,

And rends asunder the petals [in order to draw him out];

In the same way, the Lord perceives the world,

The Matrix of the Buddha, covered with the sheath of stains, Desire, Hatred, etc.,

And kills its Obscurations because of Compassion.

Fuchs (2000)

Once his divine eye sees the Sugata abiding within the closed ugly lotus,

the man cuts the petals. Seeing the perfect buddha nature within beings,

obscured by the shroud of desire, hatred, and the other mental poisons,

the Muni does likewise and through his compassion defeats all their veils.

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