Text 3.7 (Commentary)

[Guhyagarbha-Tantra, Text section 3.7]

... [and the unsurpassed vehicle,] [6] they have taught, are teaching and will teach the eighty-four thousand doctrines as an antidote for the eighty-four thousand conflicting emotions, which are conceptual thoughts of Ignorance. [7] ...

[Tibetan]

ma-rig-pa'i rnam-par rtog-pa nyon-mongs-pa stong-phrag brgyad-cu rtsa-bzhi'i gnyen-por / chos stong-phrag brgyad-cu rtsa-bzhi gsungs-so / gsung-ngo / gsung-bar 'gyur-ro [7]

Commentary:

[The antidotes as which these vehicles are taught:]

As an antidote for the eighty-four thousand conflicting emotions (nyon-mongs-pa stong-phrag brgyad-cu rtsa-bzhi'i gnyen-por), twenty-one thousand of which each comprise the conflicting emotions of desire, hatred, delusion, and their equal combination and which are created by conceptual thoughts of ignorance (ma-rig-pa'i rnam-par rtog-pa) in the minds of living beings, those teachers who emanate from the naturally present pristine cognition in conformity with the perception of those to be trained have taught (gsungs-so) previously, are teaching (gsung-ngo) even at the present moment in the worlds of the infinite limitless ten directions, and will teach (gsung-bar 'gyur-ro) in the future the eighty-four thousand (stong-phrag brgyad-cu rtsa-bzhi) approaches of the doctrines (chos)—twenty-one thousand of which belong to each of the three piṭakas of the Vinaya, Sūtra, and Abhidharma, and to the Piṭaka of the Mantras where (their distinctive features) are in equal combination.

[The third (the exegesis of the meanins of these vehicles, comments on Ch. 3.8):]

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