Text 19.2 (Commentary)

[Guhyagarbha-Tantra, Text section 19.2]

When the unsurpassed vehicle is well ascertained,
All conflicting emotions and deeds are experienced,
Yet they are engaged, without being accumulated.
And they become the provisions.
This is the excellence of moral discipline and vows. [2]

[Tibetan]

bla-med theg-pa rab-nges-na /
nyon-mongs las-rnams kun-spyad-kyang /
byas-la mi-sog tshogs 'gyur-te /
tshul-khrims sdom-pa phun-sum-tshogs / [2]

Commentary:

[Interlinear Commentary on the Commitments (578.2-596.2)]

The interlinear commentary (on this chapter) comprises a general teaching on the essence of the supreme commitments, and a particular exegesis of the structure (of commitments) to be attained and to be guarded.

[General Teaching on the Essence of the Supreme Commitments (578.3-583.5):]

[The former has three sections.]

[i. The superiority of the secret commitments to others (comments on Ch. 19.2):]

When (na) the most secret unsurpassed vehicle (bla-med theg-par) is entered by any individual and is well ascertained (rab-nges) without error and experientially cultivated, all (kun) the five poisons or conflicting emotions (nyon-mongs) and the deeds (las-rnams) produced by them are experienced (spyad). Yet (kyang) these same deeds appear to be engaged (byas), without (la-mi) obscurations and propensities being accumulated (gsog), just as an apparitional phantom is experienced. in addition, they become ('gyur-te) the perfect two provisions (tshogs) of merit and pristine cognition. This is because in the essence of that experience the moral discipline (tshul-khrims) of prātimokṣa, the vows (sdom-pa) of the bodhisattvas, and the excellence (phun-sum tshogs) of the commitments of secret mantra are complete and perfect.

[ii. All Instructions and vows are shown to be gathered in the secret commitments. (It comments on Ch. 19.3):]

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