Guhyagarbha Tantra (with Commentary)
by Gyurme Dorje | 1987 | 304,894 words
The English translation of the Guhyagarbha Tantra, including Longchenpa's commentary from the 14th century. The whole work is presented as a critical investigation into the Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism, of which the Guhyagarbhatantra is it's principle text. It contains twenty-two chapters teaching the essence and practice of Mahayoga, which s...
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Text 10.10 (Commentary)
[Guhyagarbha-Tantra, Text section 10.10]
Henceforth you will become a son of the Conqueror,
Will be without all evil existences,
Will have the excellent happiness of longevity,
And become a master of celestial realms and liberation!
鈥擲uch was his expression. [10][Tibetan]
dus-'di phyin-cad rgyal-ba'i sras /
ngan-song thams-cad med-pa-dang /
tshe-ring bde-ba phun-sum-tshogs /
mtho-ris thar-pa'i bdag-por 'gyur /
鈥攝hes brjod-do / [10]
Commentary:
[Beneficial Attributes of Empowerment (377.5-379.1):]
[The third topic concerns the beneficial attributes of one who has obtained empowerment. (It comments on Ch. 10.10):]
Henceforth (dus-'di phyin-chad), after perfectly obtaining the empowerments of ability and beneficence, you, son of the enlightened family, will become a son of the Conqueror (rgyal-ba'i sras), Samantabhadra.
It says in the Secret Tantra (gsang-ba'i rgyud):
Immediately after obtaining the secret empowerment,
One becomes an actual son of Samantabhadra.
Now, even adherents of the Transcendental Perfections say that one becomes a son of the conquerors immediately after cultivating an enlightened attitude.
Correspondingly, it says in the Introduction to the Conduct of a Bodhisattva (T. 3871):
Immediately after cultivating enlightened mind.
Those who are tormented and bound in the prison of 蝉补峁僺腻谤补
Should be called sons of the 罢补迟丑腻驳补迟补蝉,
And become an object of obeisance
For gods and human beings of the world.
After obtaining empowerment, one's connections with the deeds and propensities which cause one to fall in the next life into evil existences will actually diminish and cease, so that one will be without all (thams-cad med-pa-dang) the three evil existences (ngan-song) and their sufferings.[1] Also, by acquiring the appropriate causal basis of the empowerment of longevity, in this life one will entirely have the excellent happiness (bde-ba phun-sum-tshogs) of longevity (tshe-ring), wealth, possessions, and genuine mastery; and one will be without suffering. And in the next life, too, one will provisionally be born among the gods and humans of celestial realms (mtho-ris), one will constantly practice the virtuous doctrine, and become ('gyur) a master of (bdag-por) conclusive liberation (thar-pa), in order to achieve the excellent twofold benefit for living beings through the excellent buddha-bodies of reality and form!鈥擲uch was his expression (zhes brjod-do).
Accordingly, the 厂补尘辫耻峁璦迟补苍迟谤补 (T. 382) also says:
Those who have obtained empowerment.
Endowed with excellent happiness.
Will indeed accomplish all that is good in this life.
And be without all evil existences.
In the next life, too, they will spontaneously
Accomplish the twofold benefit.
[(The conclusion comments on Ch. 10.11):]
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