Verse I.67

Ratnagotravibhāga Root Verse I.67

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Verse I.67 Variations

मृत्युव्याधिजरादुःखमूलमार्यैरपोद्धृतम्
कर्मक्लेशवशाज्जातिस्तदभावान्न तेषु तत्

mṛtyuvyādhijarāduḥkhamūlamāryairapoddhṛtam
karmakleśavaśājjātistadabhāvānna teṣu tat

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

།འཕགས་པས་འཆི་དང་ན་བ་དང་།
།རྒ་བའི་སྡུག་བསྔལ་རྩད་ནས་སྤངས།
།ལས་དང་ཉོན་མོངས་དབང་གིས་སྐྱེ།
།དེ་ལ་དེ་མེད་ཕྱིས་དེ་མེད།

Dege, PHI, 114

The root of the sufferings of death, sickness,
And aging is removed by the noble ones.
[Such suffering] is born from the power of karma and afflictions,
[But] they lack it because they lack these.

When the Clouds Part, Brunnhölzl, 379

Les sublimes [bodhisattvas] ont dissipé les souffrances

De la mort, de la maladie et de la vieillesse. La naissance dérivant des affections et des actes N’est plus et ses suites ne seront point.

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

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།འདིས་ཅི་བསྟན་ཞེ་ན། འཕགས་པས་འཆི་དང་ན་བ་དང་། །རྒ་བའི་སྡུག་བསྔལ་རྩད་ནས་སྤངས། །ལས་དང་ཉོན་མོངས་དབང་གིས་སྐྱེ། །དེ་ལ་དེ་མེད་ཕྱིས་དེ་མེད། །མ་དག་པའི་གནས་སྐབས་ཀྱི་འཆི་བ་དང་། ན་བ་དང་། རྒ་{br}བའི་མེ་འདིའི་བུད་ཤིང་ལྟ་བུའི་ཉེ་བར་ལེན་པ་ནི་ཚུལ་བཞིན་མ་ཡིན་པ་ཡིད་ལ་བྱེད་པ་དང་། ལས་དང་ཉོན་མོངས་པ་སྔོན་དུ་འགྲོ་བ་ཅན་གྱི་སྐྱེ་བ་ཡིན་ཏེ། མ་དག་པ་དང་དག་པའི་གནས་སྐབས་ན། ཡིད་ཀྱི་རང་བཞིན་གྱི་ལུས་ཐོབ་པའི་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ་རྣམས་ལ་གང་

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ཞིག་ཤིན་ཏུ་སྣང་བར་མེད་པར་གྱུར་པས་ཅིག་ཤོས་གཏན་འབར་བ་མེད་པར་རྟོགས་པའོ།

What is taught by this?

The root of the sufferings of death, sickness,

And aging is removed by the noble ones.

[Such suffering] is born from the power of karma and afflictions,

[But] they lack it because they lack these. I.67

{P103a} The substantial cause of the fires of the sufferings of death, sickness, and aging during the phase of [the tathāgata element’s] being impure is the fuel-like being born that is preceded by improper mental engagement, karma, and afflictions. In bodhisattvas during the phase of [the tathāgata element’s] being both impure and pure, who have obtained a body of a mental nature, there is no appearance whatsoever [of such a cause]. {D99b} Because of that, it is understood that the others [the fires of death and so on that are the results of being born] do not blaze at all [either].

anena kiṃ darśayati/

mṛtyuvyādhijarāduḥkhamūlamāryairapoddhṛtam/

karmakleśavaśājjātistadabhāvānna teṣu tat//67//

asya khalu mṛtyuvyādhijarāduḥkhavahreraśuddhāvasthāyāmayoniśomanasikārakarmakleśapūrvikā jātirindhanamivopādānaṃ bhavati/ yasya manomayātmabhāvapratilabdheṣu bodhisattveṣu śuddhāśuddhāvasthāyāmatyantamanābhāsagamanāditarasyātyantamanujjvalanaṃ prajñāyate/

已說依不淨時不變不異◎

◎次說依淨不淨時不變不異故說二偈

菩薩摩訶薩 如實知佛性 不生亦不滅 復無老病等 菩薩如是知 得離於生死 憐愍眾生故 示現有生滅

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此偈示現何義偈言

老病死諸苦 聖人永滅盡 依業煩惱生 諸菩薩無彼 此偈明何義明此老病死等苦火於不淨時依業煩惱本生如世間火依薪本生以諸菩薩得生意生身於淨不淨時畢竟永滅盡以是義故諸業煩惱等常不能燒燃

Other English translations

Obermiller (1931)

The Saint has rooted out the suffering

Of death, of illness, and old age.

He is not subjected to the birth conditioned by the Biotic Force and Desire;

Therefore the sufferings of the Phenomenal World which follow (such as birth)

Are not experienced by him.

Takasaki (1966)

The sufferings of death, illness and decrepitude

Are destroyed by the Saints to the root;

There is a birth by the power of Active Force and Defilements;

As there is no birth [of such a kind]

The saints have no root [of defilements].

Fuchs (2000)

The noble have eradicated the suffering

of dying, falling ill, and aging at its root,

which is being born due to karma and poisons.

There being no such [cause], there is no such [fruit].

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