[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Buddhist Sanskrit literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit) › [Mahāyāna sūtras](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra) › [Doctrinal sūtras](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.dharma) › [Vajramaṇḍadhāraṇī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.dharma.vajramandadharani) › [འཕགས་པ་རྡོ་རྗེའི་སྙིང་པོའི་གཟུངས་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.dharma.vajramandadharani*bo) › [The Dharani of the Vajra Quintessence](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.dharma.vajramandadharani*bo~en-84000) › 21 # འཕགས་པ་རྡ་རྗའ་སྙང་པའ་གཟངས་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 21 The Dhāraṇī of the Vajra Quintessence 21 - **Language:** English ### [21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.dharma.vajramandadharani*bo~en-84000.21) Did that person’s craving for a son come from the east, or from the south, or from the west, or from the north, or from below, or from above, or from within, or from without, or from neither of those last two?” “Blessed One,” replied Mañjuśrī, “craving is not apprehended in the east, nor in the south, nor the west, nor the north, nor above, nor below, nor within, nor without, nor neither of the last two possibilities.” “Mañjuśrī, what do you think?” asked the Blessed One. “Did anyone make that craving or cause it to be made?” “Blessed One,” replied Mañjuśrī, “craving is not made. As it lacks any creator, it is something unreal imputed by immature ordinary people with wrong ideas.” “Mañjuśrī, what do you think?” asked the Blessed One. “Do such unreal things exist?” “No, Blessed One. They do not, Sugata,” replied Mañjuśrī. The Blessed One asked, “Mañjuśrī, can there be anything polluted or purified in something that does not exist?” “No, Blessed One, there cannot,” replied Mañjuśrī. “Mañjuśrī,” said the Blessed One, “phenomena that are not found in the east, in the south, in the west, in the north, and that are not apprehended within, nor without, nor either of those two cannot be something that is polluted or something that is purified. And that, Mañjuśrī, is the dhāraṇī gate that one enters through the likes of craving. “Mañjuśrī, appropriation is awakening. This is a dhāraṇī gate.” “Blessed One, how is appropriation awakening?” asked Mañjuśrī. “Did not the Blessed One declare that appropriation was bondage?” “Mañjuśrī, what do you think?” asked the Blessed One in return, “do immature ordinary people produce anything?” “Yes, Blessed One,” Mañjuśrī answered, “they do produce things. They produce the five sense objects—form, sound, smell, taste, and touch.” - [Previous: 20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.dharma.vajramandadharani*bo~en-84000.20) - [Next: 22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.dharma.vajramandadharani*bo~en-84000.22) ## Linked texts (1) - [འཕགས་པ་རྡོ་རྗེའི་སྙིང་པོའི་གཟུངས་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.dharma.vajramandadharani*bo.21) — Classical Tibetan --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.dharma.vajramandadharani*bo~en-84000.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.dharma.vajramandadharani*bo~en-84000.21) · Pramāṇa