Text 15.21 (Commentary)

[Guhyagarbha-Tantra, Text section 15.21]

... Then the Transcendent Lord, the Great Joyous One, the great glorious Blood-Drinker, again manifested the very terrifying forms of the five enlightened families through the skillful means which grants instruction, and then all of them through their Joyousness became absorbed in the contemplation called "the emergence of the cloud-like maṇḍala of display". [21] ...

[Tibetan]

de-nas bcom-ldan-'das dgyes-pa chen-po dpal khrag-'thung chen-pos 'dul-ba'i thabs-kyis / yang rigs-lnga'i 'jigs-byed chen-por snang-bar byas-nas / de-dag kun-kyang dgyes-pas rol-pa'i dkyil-'khor-gyi sprin-'byung-ba zhes-bya-ba'i ting-nge-'dzin la snyoms-par zhugs-nas / [21]

Commentary:

[The second part concerns the display manifested by this great rite of sexual union. It has three aspects, of which the first is the causal basis or meditative absorption in contemplation. (It comments on Ch. 15.21):]

Once these queens had been overpowered, then the Transcendent Lord, the Great Joyous One (de-nad bcom-ldan-'das dgyes-pa chen-po), the great glorious Blood-Drinker (dpal khrag-'thung chen-pos) of living beings, through the skillful means which grants instruction ('dul-ba'i thabs-kyis) to trainees, again (yang) manifested (snang-bar byas) the blazing host of the very terrifying forms of the five enlightened families (rigs-lnga'i 'jigs-byed chen-por). Then (nas) all these (de-dag kun-kyang) male and female consorts, without duality, became absorbed (snyoms-par zhugs-nas), through their joyousness (dgyes-pas), in the contemplation called the emergence ('byung-ba zhes-bya-ba'i ting-nge-'dzin-la) of the cloud-like maṇḍala of display (rol-pa'i dkyil-'khor-gyi sprin) which pervades the self-manifesting expanse of space.

[The second aspect concerns the secondary condition, the Intonation of the secret mantras of supreme awareness. (It comments on Ch. 15.22):]

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