Excerpt for Mahayana Buddhism in Translation 3: Paramarthastava or Hymn of the Supreme Reality by Joshua Norager, available in its entirety at Smashwords
Mahayana Buddhism in Translations 3:
Paramarthastava
Song of the Supreme Reality
by Arya Nagarjuna
translated from the Sanskrit
by Joshua Nørager
Copyright 2011 all rights reserved
Smashwords Edition
—oOo—
1
How can I praise you, O natha,
as you neither arise nor abide
above comparisons, common metaphors
& beyond what words can say?
2
I
cannot praise you
from the standpoint of reality