Buddhism has produced
one of the amazing practitioners. Despite the fact that Buddhism in Tibet was
sob divided into various sect. each sect have their master who made a
remarkable achievements in compilation of text. Many of the earlier master have
showed that it is possible to achieve enlightenment during this very lifetime.
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| Milarepa the great yogi |
One of the most famous
was the yogi Milarepa, who during his earlier times killed many people through
black magic. He had a reason to do that. Later with deep regret he set his journey
in search of a master from whom he can practice. It was not that easy as he has
thought. His spiritual master known as the great translator Marpa was very
strict with him. He was very tempered in nature. It was the Marpa who trained
him thoroughly not with the teachings but made him work. He was asked to build
a house but before the completion it was dismantled several times. It was
during this time when he really proved himself obedient to his master. Then after many years of struggle, finally he
was given the sacred teachings.
Milarepa exceled in
his practice. He is considered as one of the best example of hoe dedicated we
should be to our master. He is also famous for the Gurma(spiritual song of
realization). The song that I have translated is a prayer called Seven branches
of offering (ཡན་ལག་བདུན་པ ). this was
sung dedicated to his master.
མ་དག་གདུལ་བྱའི་སྣང་ངོ་ལ།།
འོད་གསལ་ཆོས་སྐུའི་ནམ་མཁའ་ལ།།
ཆོས་དབྱིངས་དག་པའི་ཕོ་བྲང་ན།།
ཁྱོད་ཀྱིས་བསྡུས་པའི་སྲས་རྣམས་དང་།།
འཇིག་རྟེན་ཁམས་ནི་ཐམས་ཅད་ན།།
བསོད་ནམས་ཀུན་ལ་རྗེས་ཡི་རང་།།
7.I dedicate all the merits for
the sentient beings
I have tried my best to translate the meanings as far as possible. still then then there is always a room for improvement. I would highly appreciate your comments if there is any misinterpretation.
