Text 21.4 (Commentary)

[Guhyagarbha-Tantra, Text section 21.4]

HŪṂ! The great light of wrathful discriminative awareness
Is radiant in all maṇḍalas of pristine cognition.
It entirely subdues (conflicting emotions)
In blazing pristine cognition.
The pristine cognitions of diverse kinds
Are present in this great seminal point. HOḤ [4]

[Tibetan]

HŪṂ khro-bo shes-rab 'od-po-che /
ye-shes dkyil-'khor kun-tu gsal /
'bar-ba'i ye-shes kun-tu 'joms /
sna-tshogs ye-shes thig-le che HOḤ / [4]

Commentary:

[The third aspect is a eulogy to the maṇḍalas belonging to the enlightened family of Buddha-mind (which comments on Ch. 21.4):]

One who knows all objects of knowledge without exception possesses the great light ('od-no-che) rays of discriminative awareness (shes-rab) which are wrathful (khro-bo) to the host of ignorant beings. That light is radiant in all maṇḍalas of (dkyil-'khor kun-tu gsal) the fivefold pristine cognition (ye-shes), so that it entirely subdues (kun-tu-'joms) the energy of conflicting emotions with their individual characteristics, which provisionally appear, blazing ('bar-ba'i) forth as the five poisons, but abide essentially in pristine cognition (ye-shes-su).

Moreover, this pristine cognition, with reference to the emanational body, comprises both the pristine cognition which qualitatively knows (the view) and that which quantitatively knows (phenomena); and, with reference to the body of perfect rapture, it comprises the mirror-like pristine cognition and so forth.{GL_NOTE::} These pristine cognitions of diverse kinds are present (sna-tshogs ye-shes) of a single savour in the pristine cognition of genuine reality, this great seminal point (thig-le che) which is the non-dual essence.{GL_NOTE::}

[The fourth aspect is a eulogy to all the maṇḍalas of the enlightened family of attributes. (It comments on Ch. 21.5):]

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