Text 19.21 (Commentary)

[Guhyagarbha-Tantra, Text section 19.21]

Moreover the seal of Samantabhadra the supreme conqueror
In which all things are present without exception
Is accomplished in all that is genuine, without attainment.
Such (commitments) are infinitely supreme. [21]

[Tibetan]

gzhan-yang rgyal-mchog kun-bzang-gi /
thams-cad ma-lus phyag-rgya-yis /
sgrub-byed dam-pa ma-lus 'grub /
de-la-sogs-pa mtha'-yas mchog / [21]

Commentary:

[The second reveals that the commitments are inconceivable because reality is inconceivable. (It comments on Ch. 19.21):]

Apart from this teaching that there are commitments which equal the categories of apparent reality, there is moreover (gzhan-yang) the sky-like seal (phyag-rgya) in which all things without exception are (thams-cad ma-lus) gathered without duality in the supreme display of the effortless Samantabhadra (kun-bzang-gi). He is the supreme conqueror (rgyal-mchog), in whom all things of phenomenal existence, saṃsāra and nirvāṇa transcend renunciation, acceptance and limits to be guarded because they are primordially without acceptance or rejection. This nature is without (med) fabrication, laborious attainment (sgrub), hope and doubt; and it is accomplished in ('grub) all that is genuine (dam-pa), the supreme nucleus of all the commitments without exception (ma-lus). Therefore It should be known as the disposition of the Great Perfection, the abiding nature, devoid of fabrication, corruption, hope and doubt with respect to the real.

It also says in the All-Accomplishing King (T. 828):

O! I, the all-accomplishing king, teacher of teachers.
Understand that all things are one
In the basic enlightened mind.
And that all things are indeed
The unique commitment of the nucleus.
Transcending objects which are or are not to be guarded.

O! the commitments of the all-accomplishing king's view
Are uncreated, like space transcending direction.
Thus, one who well understands them
Realises the commitment of the all-accomplishing king.

O! Just as all things are one in basic mind
They are one in the basic commitment, without being guarded.

O! This commitment which is the intention of mine, the all-accomplishing king,
Becomes naturally present through unwavering recollection As the actual pristine cognition,
Unfabricated and uncreated by anyone at all.
Empowered by awareness.
It is neither to be guarded, nor not to be guarded.

All things in their entirety which accordingly appear
Are empowered by radiance in the naturally present nucleus.
And then, created by the all-accomplishing king,
All things transcend the range of awareness and ignorance.
This is the commitment where there is nothing
To be transcended, violated, or limits to be guarded.

Therefore, the commitment of the genuine abiding nature is contemplation—indescribable, unteachable, without characteristics, and unchanging in primordial reality throughout the three times.

Such (de-la sogs-na) commitments transcending objects of thought, expression and reference are essentially the abiding nature of Infinitely supreme (mtha'-yas mchog) genuine Great Perfection. All commitments are dispositionally gathered within these commitments even when they are not yet attained.

Concerning these enlightened attributes, it says in the Tantra of the Open Space of the Sky (nam-mkha' klong-yangs-kyi rgyud):

Just as a man who finds precious jewels
Has no need for mundane commerce,
If, without meditating, the meaning of mind is realised,
All enlightened attributes without exception
Are spontaneously present.
The commitment is not to transgress this.

[iv. The fourth section is the detailed exegesis of great enlightened attributes which has five aspects.]

[Among them the first concerns praise and veneration by mundane beings. (It comments on Ch. 19.22):]

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