Verse V.6 Variations
च्छीलं स्वर्गं भावना क्लेशहानिम्
प्रज्ञा क्लेशज्ञेयसर्वप्रहाणं
सातः श्रेष्ठा हेतुरस्याः श्रवोऽयम्
cchīlaṃ svargaṃ bhāvanā kleśahānim
prajñā kleśajñeyasarvaprahāṇaṃ
sātaḥ śreṣṭhā heturasyāḥ śravo'yam
།ཁྲིམས་ཀྱི་མཐོ་རིས་བསྒོམས་པས་ཉོན་མོངས་སྤོང་བྱེད་ལ།
།ཤེས་རབ་ཉོན་མོངས་ཤེས་བྱ་ཀུན་སྤོང་དེ་ཡི་ཕྱིར།
།འདི་མཆོག་ཉིད་དེ་དེ་ཡི་རྒྱུ་ནི་འདི་ཐོས་ཡིན།
Discipline [just leads to] heaven, and meditation [just] relinquishes the afflictions,
While prajñā eliminates all afflictive and cognitive [obscurations],
It is supreme, and its cause is to study this [dharma].
La discipline ne conduit qu’à une renaissance heureuse ; Et la méditation ne peut que repousser les affections La connaissance les surpasse toutes parce qu’elle élimine les voiles émotionnel et cognitif, et qu’elle a pour cause la présente étude.
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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.
- I follow VT (fol. 16v7) caturṣu sthāneṣv (supported by DP and C) instead of just sthāneṣv. These four points are vajra points 4 through 7—the tathāgata heart, awakening, its qualities, and its activity.
- DP "those with pure minds" (dagga pa’i seems).
- Instead of °buddhi, DP read "buddha qualities" (snags rgyas yon tan) in the next line.
- VT (fol. 16v7) glosses "this" as "the discussion of the doctrine that explicitly speaks of the buddha element and so on."
- "The meditative states of the gods"refers to the four dhyānas and the four formless absorptions, while the four brahmāvihāras are the four immeasurables of love, compassion, rejoicing, and equanimity that lead to rebirth as the god Mahābrahmā.
- With Schmithausen, I follow MB and J saṃbodhyupāyācyutaḥ (supported by DP rdzogs pa’i byang chub ’pho med thabs bsgoms la) against MA saṃbodhyupāyāc cyutaḥ, whose meaning is also found in C.