Ven. Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche and translator Ari Goldfield
taught this song to students during Rinpoche's 1998 teaching tour.
Rinpoche gave the following introductions to the song during a teaching on
August 8, 1998 at the Hartford KTC:
This twentieth century is the century when science and the economy
have made incredible advances, so we need to make aspiration prayers
that this material and technological advancement will be boons to world
peace and world happiness. That is what this song is about.
In this song, the third verse says "The vision of Your wisdom [is
amazing]," so this refers to the Buddha. There is one verse for the
Buddha, the next verse is for the Dharma, and the next one is for the
Sangha. Those are the three outer sources of refuge. The verse that
follows that, about the yidams and the dharma protectors, are what's
called the three roots.
Namo Guru Hasa Vajra Ye!
![](KTD--Auspiciousness That Lights Up the Universe--_files/dot_clear.gif) You see that everything in samsara and nirvana
![](KTD--Auspiciousness That Lights Up the Universe--_files/dot_clear.gif) Is merely dependently arisen
![](KTD--Auspiciousness That Lights Up the Universe--_files/dot_clear.gif) You see the dharmata, the true being
![](KTD--Auspiciousness That Lights Up the Universe--_files/dot_clear.gif) That is the essence of all dependent arising
![](KTD--Auspiciousness That Lights Up the Universe--_files/dot_clear.gif) The power of your great insight
![](KTD--Auspiciousness That Lights Up the Universe--_files/dot_clear.gif) Fills the universe with auspicious light
![](KTD--Auspiciousness That Lights Up the Universe--_files/dot_clear.gif) Oh mighty Shepa Dorje
![](KTD--Auspiciousness That Lights Up the Universe--_files/dot_clear.gif) Please rise up now from within my heart.
![](KTD--Auspiciousness That Lights Up the Universe--_files/dot_clear.gif) Ground's basic nature transcends conceptuality
![](KTD--Auspiciousness That Lights Up the Universe--_files/dot_clear.gif) And like watermoons, appearances arise dependently
![](KTD--Auspiciousness That Lights Up the Universe--_files/dot_clear.gif) May everyone realize that this is true
![](KTD--Auspiciousness That Lights Up the Universe--_files/dot_clear.gif) And dispel the darkness cast by doubt and wrong view
![](KTD--Auspiciousness That Lights Up the Universe--_files/dot_clear.gif) And may their realization's auspiciousness
![](KTD--Auspiciousness That Lights Up the Universe--_files/dot_clear.gif) Light up the whole universe!
![](KTD--Auspiciousness That Lights Up the Universe--_files/dot_clear.gif) The vision of Your wisdom is amazing
![](KTD--Auspiciousness That Lights Up the Universe--_files/dot_clear.gif) You see just how things are, You see everything
![](KTD--Auspiciousness That Lights Up the Universe--_files/dot_clear.gif) As parents love their children, so You love all beings
![](KTD--Auspiciousness That Lights Up the Universe--_files/dot_clear.gif) You bring us benefit and happiness
![](KTD--Auspiciousness That Lights Up the Universe--_files/dot_clear.gif) Your power makes disciples out of Your enemies--
![](KTD--Auspiciousness That Lights Up the Universe--_files/dot_clear.gif) May Your auspiciousness light up the universe!
![](KTD--Auspiciousness That Lights Up the Universe--_files/dot_clear.gif) For samsara's cause, clinging to 'I' and 'me',
![](KTD--Auspiciousness That Lights Up the Universe--_files/dot_clear.gif) The Dharma realizing selflessness is the greatest
remedy
![](KTD--Auspiciousness That Lights Up the Universe--_files/dot_clear.gif) May all beings use it to pacify
![](KTD--Auspiciousness That Lights Up the Universe--_files/dot_clear.gif) Their confused belief that there is an 'I'
![](KTD--Auspiciousness That Lights Up the Universe--_files/dot_clear.gif) And by the power of this great happening
![](KTD--Auspiciousness That Lights Up the Universe--_files/dot_clear.gif) May auspiciousness light up the universe!
![](KTD--Auspiciousness That Lights Up the Universe--_files/dot_clear.gif) The ways of ordinary beings, you have left
behind--
![](KTD--Auspiciousness That Lights Up the Universe--_files/dot_clear.gif) Noble ones who realize reality, the true nature of
mind
![](KTD--Auspiciousness That Lights Up the Universe--_files/dot_clear.gif) May you lead all ordinary beings
![](KTD--Auspiciousness That Lights Up the Universe--_files/dot_clear.gif) Who have not yet entered, to the path of peace
![](KTD--Auspiciousness That Lights Up the Universe--_files/dot_clear.gif) And by this may auspiciousness
![](KTD--Auspiciousness That Lights Up the Universe--_files/dot_clear.gif) Light up the whole universe!
![](KTD--Auspiciousness That Lights Up the Universe--_files/dot_clear.gif) May the yidams who bestow the siddhis
![](KTD--Auspiciousness That Lights Up the Universe--_files/dot_clear.gif) And the protectors who clear obstacles away
![](KTD--Auspiciousness That Lights Up the Universe--_files/dot_clear.gif) Eliminate all harmful conditions--
![](KTD--Auspiciousness That Lights Up the Universe--_files/dot_clear.gif) Everything adverse to the path
![](KTD--Auspiciousness That Lights Up the Universe--_files/dot_clear.gif) And by this may auspiciousness
![](KTD--Auspiciousness That Lights Up the Universe--_files/dot_clear.gif) Light up the whole universe!
![](KTD--Auspiciousness That Lights Up the Universe--_files/dot_clear.gif) May the noble path of nonviolence
![](KTD--Auspiciousness That Lights Up the Universe--_files/dot_clear.gif) Flourish in all the worlds there are
![](KTD--Auspiciousness That Lights Up the Universe--_files/dot_clear.gif) When beings meet and interact
![](KTD--Auspiciousness That Lights Up the Universe--_files/dot_clear.gif) May the connections they make be filled with love
![](KTD--Auspiciousness That Lights Up the Universe--_files/dot_clear.gif) And by this may auspiciousness
![](KTD--Auspiciousness That Lights Up the Universe--_files/dot_clear.gif) Light up the whole universe!
![](KTD--Auspiciousness That Lights Up the Universe--_files/dot_clear.gif) At the twilight of this century
![](KTD--Auspiciousness That Lights Up the Universe--_files/dot_clear.gif) That has been one of such prosperity
![](KTD--Auspiciousness That Lights Up the Universe--_files/dot_clear.gif) May struggle over wealth and gain
![](KTD--Auspiciousness That Lights Up the Universe--_files/dot_clear.gif) Disappear and not be seen again
![](KTD--Auspiciousness That Lights Up the Universe--_files/dot_clear.gif) Free from strife and violence
![](KTD--Auspiciousness That Lights Up the Universe--_files/dot_clear.gif) May all enjoy great abundance
![](KTD--Auspiciousness That Lights Up the Universe--_files/dot_clear.gif) And by this may auspiciousness
![](KTD--Auspiciousness That Lights Up the Universe--_files/dot_clear.gif) Light up the whole universe!
![](KTD--Auspiciousness That Lights Up the Universe--_files/dot_clear.gif) This has been a century
![](KTD--Auspiciousness That Lights Up the Universe--_files/dot_clear.gif) When science has advanced incredibly
![](KTD--Auspiciousness That Lights Up the Universe--_files/dot_clear.gif) Amazing and wondrous, these new machines
![](KTD--Auspiciousness That Lights Up the Universe--_files/dot_clear.gif) That have brought the gods' enjoyments to human beings
![](KTD--Auspiciousness That Lights Up the Universe--_files/dot_clear.gif) May they be used with skill supreme
![](KTD--Auspiciousness That Lights Up the Universe--_files/dot_clear.gif) To end violence and cause peace to reign
![](KTD--Auspiciousness That Lights Up the Universe--_files/dot_clear.gif) And by this may auspiciousness
![](KTD--Auspiciousness That Lights Up the Universe--_files/dot_clear.gif) Light up the whole universe!
![](KTD--Auspiciousness That Lights Up the Universe--_files/dot_clear.gif) May the sciences that explore outside
![](KTD--Auspiciousness That Lights Up the Universe--_files/dot_clear.gif) Be joined with the inner science of the mind
![](KTD--Auspiciousness That Lights Up the Universe--_files/dot_clear.gif) To excellently put an end
![](KTD--Auspiciousness That Lights Up the Universe--_files/dot_clear.gif) To mistaken views and confusion
![](KTD--Auspiciousness That Lights Up the Universe--_files/dot_clear.gif) And by this may auspiciousness
![](KTD--Auspiciousness That Lights Up the Universe--_files/dot_clear.gif) Light up the whole universe!
![](KTD--Auspiciousness That Lights Up the Universe--_files/dot_clear.gif) The source of all this auspiciousness
![](KTD--Auspiciousness That Lights Up the Universe--_files/dot_clear.gif) Is the true nature of mind, so luminous!
![](KTD--Auspiciousness That Lights Up the Universe--_files/dot_clear.gif) So may realization of mind, just as it is
![](KTD--Auspiciousness That Lights Up the Universe--_files/dot_clear.gif) Set the universe ablaze with auspicious excellence!
![](KTD--Auspiciousness That Lights Up the Universe--_files/dot_clear.gif) Through all of this auspiciousness
![](KTD--Auspiciousness That Lights Up the Universe--_files/dot_clear.gif) Wherever its light may be seen
![](KTD--Auspiciousness That Lights Up the Universe--_files/dot_clear.gif) With the love and the compassion
![](KTD--Auspiciousness That Lights Up the Universe--_files/dot_clear.gif) That make bodhicitta mind supreme
![](KTD--Auspiciousness That Lights Up the Universe--_files/dot_clear.gif) May this thought arise in everyone:
![](KTD--Auspiciousness That Lights Up the Universe--_files/dot_clear.gif) "Other beings' happiness is as important as my own"
![](KTD--Auspiciousness That Lights Up the Universe--_files/dot_clear.gif) And may excellent virtue and auspiciousness
![](KTD--Auspiciousness That Lights Up the Universe--_files/dot_clear.gif) Always increase, never diminish!
![](KTD--Auspiciousness That Lights Up the Universe--_files/dot_clear.gif)
On December 29, 1997, in the Garden of Translation near
the Great Stupa of Boudhanath, Nepal, this was spoken extemporaneously by
the one only called "Khenpo," Tsultrim Gyamtso. Translated by Ari
Goldfield.
Also included in this section of the KTD Web site is a biography of Khenpo
Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche with links to some of his
teachings. |