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...
Text 12.11 (Commentary)
[Guhyagarbha-Tantra, Text section 12.11]
They are transformed into the extraordinary levels.
And the transcendental perfections are totally completed. [11][Tibetan]
khyad-par sa-la gnas-'gyur yin /
pha-rol phyin-pa kun-tu rdzogs / [11]
Commentary:
[The latter concerning the levels in which they are subsumed, (comments on Ch. 12.11):]
The first three kinds of awareness-holder are subsumed in the causal levels, and the last kind is subsumed in the resultant levels. Because all of these are irreversible, they are subsumed in extraordinary levels.
Therefore the text says:
They are transformed (gnas-'gyur yin) into the extraordinary levels (khyad-par sa-la).
And the transcendental perfections (pha-rol phyin-pa) are totally completed (kun-tu rdzogs).
When these verses are explained according to their subsumption in the causal levels: those awareness-holders of the first three kinds, although they assume the births of humans, gods, and Brahmā gods, are transformed Into the ten extraordinary levels. This is said because they have obtained in their minds the essence of the ten levels, i.e., the ten transcendental perfections are totally completed.
Then, when these verses are explained according to their subsumption in the resultant levels: those (awareness-holders) of spontaneous presence are transformed into the Holder of Indestructible Reality, which is the extraordinary thirteenth level. This is said because the ten transcendental perfections which are the causal basis for the attainment of the conclusive result are totally completed.
And when these verses are explained according to their subsumption in the extraordinary irreversible levels, it is said that all those four kinds of awareness-holder are transformed Into extraordinary levels because it is certain that they abide as resultant awareness-holders; and that their sequence of attainment is such that the essences of their accomplishment in those levels, i.e., the causal and resultant transcendental perfections, are totally completed, as for example a fish that has been caught by an iron hook and brought forth to dry land.
[iii. The third part (of the particular exegesis of the result attained through the feast-offerings), concerning the conclusive result (of one who has reached the goal, comments on Ch. 12.12):]
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