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'DIR SA BCU DANG SBYAR NAS GSUNGS PA'I SEMS BSKYED DE YANG DON DAM PA'I SEMS BSKYED LA BYED CING, DE YANG NGO BO ZAG MED YE SHES YIN PA DANG,
The “Wish for enlightenment” that relates to the ten levels here in this context, moreover, refers to the ultimate Wish for enlightenment—and it, moreover, is in nature immaculate wisdom.
ZIN BYED SNYING RJE CHEN POS ZIN PA'I SGO NAS NYAMS SU LEN TSUL DANG,
And there is a way in which we practice this wisdom, as something which is imbued; and what imbues it is great compassion.
DE LA RAB DGA' LA SOGS PA SA BCUR 'BYED PA'I TSUL DANG, SGRA DON DANG BCAS PA'I RNAM PA BZHI'I SGO NAS BSHAD PAR BYA BA YIN TE,
There is as well a way in which this state of mind is divided into the ten levels of extreme bliss and the rest; and finally a way of explaining the literal meaning of its name. The levels are something that we explain in all four of these different ways.
RANG 'GREL LAS, BYANG CHUB SEMS DPA' RNAMS KYI ZAG PA MED PA'I YE SHES SNYING RJE LA SOGS PAS ZIN PA NYID CHAR RNAM PAR PHYE BA NI SA ZHES BYA BA'I MING THOB STE YON TAN GYI GNAS SU GYUR PA'I PHYIR RO, ,ZHES GSUNGS PA'I PHYIR,
As the autocommentary puts it,
We take the immaculate wisdom of the bodhisattvas, imbued with compassion and the rest, and we divide it into different parts that we give the name of “levels”; that is, states in the attainment of spiritual qualities.
KHA CIG ,'DIR BSTAN PA'I ZAG MED KYI DON NGO BO DANG MTSUNGS LDAN CI RIGS KYI SGO NAS ZAG PA RGYAS SU RUNG BA LA ZAG BCAS DANG, DE MED PA LA ZAG MED DU 'DOD PA MI RIGS TE,
Some people have expressed the position that the meaning of “immaculate” or “unstained” here is the following. “Stained” means that something either contributes to the growth of stains either by its nature, or by being linked with something else, mentally. And then “unstained” means that the thing doesn’t possess this type of stain. But this position is incorrect.
BDEN 'DZIN DANG DE'I BAG CHAGS LA ZAG PA DANG, DE MED PA LA 'DIR BSTAN ZAG MED KYI DON YIN PA'I PHYIR,
And that’s true because the word “stain” in the context here refers to either our tendency to think that things exist in truth, or the mental seed for this tendency. And “unstained” then would refer to not having these two.
DER THAL, BDEN 'DZIN ZAG PA'I GTZO BO YIN PA'I PHYIR,
That must too be the case, because the tendency to think that things exist in truth is the principal form of stain.
