Text 19.25 (Commentary)

[Guhyagarbha-Tantra, Text section 19.25]

The reality just as it is.
The skillful means which grant instruction.
And all the unthinkable vows that there are
Are without exception pure and spontaneously present. [25]

[Tibetan]

ji-bzhin-nyid-dang 'dul-ba'i thabs /
ji-snyed sdom-pa bsam-yas-pa /
ma-lus rnam-dag lhun-gyis grub / [25]

Commentary:

[The fourth, concerning the beneficial attributes of one who has gathered the enlightened attributes of vows and commitments, (comments on Ch. 19.25):]

Among the unsurpassed commitments, the sky-like reality just as it is (ji-bzhin-nyid-dang) or the abiding nature of all things, along with the meanings of all the vehicles or skillful means which grant instruction ('dul-ba'i thabs) to sentient beings, and all kinds of all the unthinkable vows that there are (ji-snyed sdom-pa bsam-yas-pa) including those of the pious attendants, self-centred buddhas and awareness-holders are without exception (ma-lus) progressively gathered, just as small measures of grain (phul) are scooped up into greater measures (bre-mig-tu):^[1] and their enlightened attributes are without exception [pure and] spontaneously present ([rnam-dag] lhun-gyis grub).

[The fifth concerns the beneficial attributes of beings able to restore (the commitments) though they have degenerated. (It comments on Ch. 19.26):]

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Footnotes and references:

[1]:

Tibetan yar-ldan-gyi tshul bre-mig-tu phul-ltar 'dus. According to bod-rgya tshig-mdzod chen-mo, there are six phul in one bre. The bre is said in the same source to be a square measuring container, twenty of which comprise "one load" (khal-gcig).