ཚའ་མཐའ་མད notes.34

notes.34

34. The Tib. khyad par du ’gro ba means literally, “they achieve distinction.” For the Skt. equivalent viśeṣagāmin, cf. the similar phrase at SN V 370: || Yañca khvassa cittaṃ dīgharattaṃ saddhāparibhāvitam sīla-suta-cāga-paribhāvitaṃ || tam uddhagāmi hoti visesagāmi || || 5. Seyyathāpi Mahānāma puriso sappikumbham vā telakumbham vā gambhīram udakarahadam ogāhetvā bhindeyya || tatra yā assa sakkharā vā kaṭhalā vā sā adho-gāmī assa || yañca khvassa tatra sappi vā telaṃ vā tam uddhaṃgāmī assa visesāgamī ||. Tr. Bhikkhu Bodhi 2000, 1808–9: “But his mind, which has been fortified over a long time by faith, virtue, learning, generosity, and wisdom—that goes upwards, goes to distinction. Suppose, Mahānāma, a man submerges a pot of ghee or a pot of oil in a deep pool of water and breaks it. All of its shards and fragments would sink downwards, but the ghee or oil there would rise upwards.”