Text 22.2 (Commentary)

[Guhyagarbha-Tantra, Text section 22.2]

O! O! These natures of the ten directions and four times
Are the very essence of the Tathāgata. [2]

[Tibetan]

kye-kye
phyogs-bcu dus-bzhi'i rang-bzhin 'di /
de-bzhin gshegs-pa'i ngo-bo-nyid / [2]

Commentary:

The second part (the exegesis of the meaning of its words) teaches that this (tantra) is the result of all paths, and that it is supreme among all secrets. The former refers to both the nature of the tantra in which instruction is to be given, and the greatness of the recipient to whom instruction is given.

[The first has three aspects:]

[i. The first, teaching that this is the actual tantra of the result, (comments on Ch. 22.2):]

O! O! (kye-kye) is an exclamation directed at the nature of the self-manifesting retinue, where skillful means and discriminative awareness are without duality, and which appears as the male and female consorts. All these natures of (rang-bzhin 'di) the things of apparitional existence, saṃsāra and nirvāṇa, subsumed in the ten directions and the four times (phyogs-bcu dus-bzhi'i) are the very essence of (-'i ngo-bo-nyid) of primordial Buddha-hood in the maṇḍalas of the peaceful and wrathful deities, i.e. the male and female consorts of the five enlightened families of the Tathāgatas (de-bzhin gshegs-pa) along with their spiritual warriors. This is the Secret Nucleus of the ground, and exemplified thereby, the Secret Nucleus of the path and the result also comprise the essence of this Tantra.

[ii. The second teaching that other paths are steps in its direction (comments on Ch. 22.3):]

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