Nirbandha-pañcaka (The Five-fold Resolve)

Sanskrit

बुद्धं बुद्धं जगत् शुद्धं इन्दबोधे न बन्धनः । आदिशुद्धो महाबुद्धः किं बुद्धं बुद्धशासने ॥ १ ॥ (buddhaṃ buddhaṃ jagat śuddhaṃ indabodhe na bandhanaḥ | ādiśuddho mahābuddhaḥ kiṃ buddhaṃ buddhaśāsane || 1 ||)

Translation

The world is pure, ever awakened; in the realization of the King of Gods (Indra), there is no bondage. The Great Buddha is originally pure—what then is “awakening” in the Buddha’s teaching?

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Sanskrit

इदं निवृत्त-प्रतिपन्नतत्त्व-फल-विकल्पस्य । सहजं निर्बन्धभाजः स्वाभाविकं वचः ॥ २ ॥ (idaṃ nivṛtta-pratipanna-tattva-phala-vikalpasya | sahajaṃ nirbandhabhājaḥ svābhāvikaṃ vacaḥ || 2 ||)

Translation

This is the natural, innate speech of one who possesses resolve (nirbandha), and whose concepts regarding reality, attainment, and fruit have ceased.

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Sanskrit

ज्ञानमनविलं शून्यमनभोगकृपात्मकम् । प्रताुत्य जायते तच्च स्वभावभाववर्जितम् ॥ ३ ॥ (jñānam anavilaṃ śūnyam anābhoga-kṛpātmakam | pratītya jāyate tac ca svabhāva-bhāva-varjitam || 3 ||)

Translation

Wisdom is untainted, empty, and of the nature of effortless compassion. It arises dependently, yet is devoid of inherent nature or existence.

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Sanskrit

अनेन निर्बन्धप्रतिरूपमाख्याति—धर्माणं शून्यता वायुः कृपा वायुरगरीयसी । वायुः संवरसामर्थ्यं वायुशुद्धा च संवृतिः ॥ ४ ॥ (anena nirbandha-pratirūpam ākhyāti—dharmmāṇaṃ śūnyatā vāyuḥ kṛpā vāyur agarīyasī | vāyuḥ saṃvara-sāmarthyaṃ vāyuśuddhā ca saṃvṛtiḥ || 4 ||)

Translation

This explains the model of resolve: The emptiness of things is the wind (vital force); compassion is the supreme wind. The wind is the capacity for restraint (saṃvara), and the wind is the pure relative reality.

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Sanskrit

अनेन निर्भर सहजोद्वारमुगौ रति— हा किं ब्रूमः कथं ब्रूमो ब्रूमो वा क्व नु ते जनाः । वदवृत्तिर्भवेद् येषामनभोगार्थशालिनी ॥ ५ ॥ (anena nirbhara-sahajodvāramugau rati— hā kiṃ brūmaḥ kathaṃ brūmo brūmo vā kva nu te janāḥ | vadāvṛttir bhaved yeṣām anābhogārtha-śālinī || 5 ||)

Translation

… regarding the bliss of the full, innate outpouring: Ha! What shall we say? How shall we speak? Or shall we speak at all—where indeed are those people in whose speech the meaning of effortlessness (anābhoga) shines forth?

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Sanskrit

एतेन करुणायाऽप्रतिष्ठितनिर्व्वचनया धर्म्मगम्भीर-नयादिमुक्तिकापुरुषदुर्लभतामवेदयति । सकर्मसूत्रबीजादि मच्छेदि फलं मम । नापराध्यो मया हिंस्रो प्येवं सहिते ॥ ६ ॥ (etena karuṇāyā apratiṣṭhita-nirvacanayā dharmagambhīra-nyāyād-imuktikā-puruṣa-durlabhatām avedayati | sakarma-sūtra-bījādi mac-chedi phalaṃ mama | nāparādhyo mayā hiṃsro py evaṃ sahite || 6 ||)

Translation

By this, he makes known the rarity of a person liberated through the profound path of Dharma and the non-abiding expression of compassion. “The fruit which cuts the seeds of karmic strands is mine. I am not at fault, even though I am fierce when so endured(?).”

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॥ निर्बन्धपञ्चकम् समाप्तम् ॥

Source: Advayavajra-saṃgraha - Nirbandha-pañcaka Reference: Buddhism, Vajrayana