Derge Kangyur/Tengyur e-text, Esukhia/Barom edition — public domain (mechanical reproduction)
This short poetic fragment attributes the practitioner's spiritual progress to the realization of Svabhāvanairātmyā (the absence of intrinsic nature). The text argues that the cessation of afflictions and the transcendence of the cycle of birth and death are achieved specifically through a state of non-attachment. By distinguishing the resulting state of great bliss from the cognitive error of grasping, the author presents a path where the abandonment of delusions leads to a stable, non-dual realization. The text commits the reader to a framework where ontological insight into the nature of reality is the primary mechanism for psychological liberation and the attainment of an affective state of bliss that is devoid of conceptual clinging.
Provenance
About this text
A treatise focusing on the realization of Svabhāvanairātmyā, or the absence of intrinsic nature, this work belongs to the classical Tibetan tradition. The Tibetan title attributes the work to Nāropa Paṇḍita. It is preserved in the Tengyur, specifically within volume ཟི, where it comprises a single page as part of the General Unexcelled Yoga Tantra Works collection. The text argues that the cessation of afflictions and the transcendence of the cycle of birth and death are achieved through a state of non-attachment. By distinguishing the resulting state of great bliss from the cognitive error of grasping, the author presents a path where the abandonment of delusions leads to a stable, non-dual realization. The work enacts a framework where ontological insight into the nature of reality serves as the primary mechanism for psychological liberation and the attainment of an affective state of bliss devoid of conceptual clinging. A scholar or serious reader consults this fragment today to examine how the intersection of non-attachment and the abandonment of delusions is theorized to produce a state of bliss that is without color, shape, or measure.
Cite thisAnuvāda, “A Song of the Paṇḍita Nāropa” (Toh 2366), machine draft, 2026.https://naxiai.com/tibetan/works/toh2366
Summary & commentary
Significance
The work is significant for its concise articulation of the relationship between the emptiness of intrinsic nature and the experiential state of great bliss. It reflects the synthesis of philosophical view and meditative result characteristic of the Mahāmudra or Dzogchen traditions associated with Nāropa.
Structure
Passages
Section
Description
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Homage and Statement of Realization
A brief invocation followed by a description of how the absence of intrinsic nature pacifies afflictions and leads to bliss.
Themes
Svabhāvanairātmyā (Absence of intrinsic nature) (1)
Non-attachment and the cessation of afflictions (1)
Great bliss versus grasping (1)
Summary, significance and provenance note generated by gemma4:31b from the translation and the catalogue record.
Homage to the Buddha!
That Svabhāvanairātmyā is the one who establishes my sequence. By means of that which is without attachment, the afflictions are pacified. Birth and death are existence; it is the abandonment of delusions. It bestows great bliss; it is not the delusion of grasping. Therefore, it is without color or shape, and no measure of it is seen. By means of that which is without desire, the arising of pride is not desired. When that Svabhāvanairātmyā has entered my heart, I do not see any distinction between myself and others, without exception. There is no going and no coming; it does not abide anywhere. Like the nature of space, it appears as total clarity. The yogi of the Great Sage, without exception and without remainder, speaks of selflessness in that way to the Fire-Svabhāvanairātmyā. This concludes the song of the Paṇḍita Nāropa.
Translation status: Not among 84000's published translations, and not in progress there. Translations published elsewhere have not been searched for, so one may exist. (source: 84000 catalogue + registry; checked 2026-11-10).
Set in Newsreader and EB Garamond; Tibetan in Noto Serif Tibetan; Chinese in Noto Serif SC.