song of realization

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.

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།།

In the eyes of deluded people

སྣ་ཚོགས་སྤྲུལ་པའི་སྐུར་སྟོན་ཅིང་།།

Display himself in numerous forms

དག་པའི་འཁོར་གྱི་གདུལ་བྱ་ལ།།

In the eyes of people with pure mind

ལོངས་སྤྱོད་རྫོགས་སྐུར་འཆར་ལ་འདུད།།

I bow to the one appearing as the sambhogakaya Buddha.

ཡན་ལག་དྲུག་ཅུའི་ཚངས་དབྱངས་ཀྱིས།།

Melodies of sixty branches

རང་རང་སྐད་དུ་དམ་པའི་ཆོས།།

In which the dharma is taught in our own language

བརྒྱད་ཁྲི་བཞི་སྟོང་གསུམ་མཛད་པའི།།

Written down in 84003 volumes

གྲག་སྟོང་དབྱེར་མེད་གསུང་ལ་འདུད།།

I bow to the sound of empty nature.

འོད་གསལ་ཆོས་སྐུའི་ནམ་མཁའ་ལ།།

In the sky of clear light dharmakaya

མཚན་མའི་སྒྲིབ་གཡོགས་མེད་བཞིན་དུ།།

There is nothing to obstruct the nature

ཤེས་བྱ་ཀུན་ལ་ཁྱབ་མཛད་པའི།།

Has accomplished all the knowledge of phenomenon

འགྱུར་མེད་ཆོས་སྐུའི་ཐུགས་ལ་འདུད།།

I bow to the unchangeable mind of dharmakaya.

ཆོས་དབྱིངས་དག་པའི་ཕོ་བྲང་ན།།

In the palace of pure expanse of reality.

མི་འགྱུར་བདག་མེད་སྒྱུ་མའི་སྐུ།།

Is the body of unchangeable without grasping

དུས་གསུམ་སངྱས་བསྐྱེད་པའི་ཡུམ།།

Mother of all the buddhas of three times

ཡུམ་ཆེན་བདག་མེད་ཞབས་ལ་འདུད།།

I bow to the great mother Dagme

ཁྱོད་ཀྱིས་བསྡུས་པའི་སྲས་རྣམས་དང་།།

All the sons gathered by you and,

བཀའ་བཞིན་སྒྲུབ་པའི་སློབ་མའི་ཚོགས།།

Group of those obedient disciples

འཁོར་དང་བཅས་པ་ཐམས་ཅད་ལ།།

To all the ones related and those gathered here

ཟོལ་མེད་གུས་པས་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ།།

I humbly prostate without any doubt

འཇིག་རྟེན་ཁམས་ནི་ཐམས་ཅད་ན།།

1.In all the realm of the beings

མཆོད་པའི་ཡོ་བྱད་ཅི་ཡོད་དང་།།

Whatever is present as the object of offering

བདག་ལུས་ཁྱེད་ཀྱི་སྤྱན་སྔར་འབུལ།།

And with that I offer my body

སྡིག་པ་ཐམས་ཅད་སོ་སོར་བཤགས།།

2. I confess all my sinful acts

བསོད་ནམས་ཀུན་ལ་རྗེས་ཡི་རང་།།

3. I rejoice on all the virtuous deeds

ཆོས་འཁོར་རྒྱ་ཆེན་བསྐོར་དུ་གསོལ།།

4.I request to turn the wheel of dharma

འཁོར་བ་མ་སྟོངས་བར་དུ་ནི།།

5.Untill the time of emptying the samsara

དཔལ་ལྡན་བླ་མ་བཞུགས་སུ་གསོལ།།

6.Let the great master also remain

དགེ་ཚོགས་སེམས་ཅན་དོན་དུ་བསྔོ།།

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.