观自在菩萨，行深般若波罗蜜多时，照见五蕴皆空，度一切苦厄。舍利子，色不异空，空不异色，色即是空，空即是色，受想行识，亦复如是。舍利子，是诸法空相，不生不灭，不垢不净，不增不减。是故空中无色，无受想行识，无眼耳鼻舌身意，无色声香味触法，无眼界，乃至无意识界，无无明，亦无无明尽，乃至无老死，亦无老死尽。无苦集灭道，无智亦无得。以无所得故。菩提萨埵，依般若波罗蜜多故，心无挂碍。无挂碍故，无有恐怖，远离颠倒梦想，究竟涅盘。三世诸佛，依般若波罗蜜多故，得阿耨多罗三藐三菩提。故知般若波罗蜜多，是大神咒，是大明咒，是无上咒，是无等等咒，能除一切苦，真实不虚。故说般若波罗蜜多咒，即说咒曰：揭谛揭谛，波罗揭谛，波罗僧揭谛，菩提萨婆诃。
When the holy BodhisattvaAvalokitesvara had truly grasped the transcendent wisdom, he realized thatvisible form is only illusion. The same applies to its perception, to its namesand categories, to discriminative intellect and finally even to our consciousness.They are all illusion. With this realization he was beyond all sorrow andbitterness.
Disciple Sariputra! The material is not different from theimmaterial. The immaterial and the material are in fact one and the same thing.The same applies to perception, concepts, discriminative thinking andconsciousness. They are neither existing nor not existing.
Sariputra! All things therefore they are in themselves not goodand not bad, they are not increasing and not decreasing. Therefore one may saythere are no such things as form, perception, concepts, thinking process, andconsciousness. Our senses such as eye, ear, nose, tongue, body and mind aremisleading us to illusion; thus one may also say there is no reality in visibleform, sound, smell, taste, touch and mind knowledge. There are also no suchthings as the realms of sense from sight up to mind, and no such things as thelinks of existence from ignorance and its end to old age and death and theirend. Also the Four Noble Truths are nonexistent, just as there is no such thingas wisdom and also no gain.
Because the holy Bodhisattva who relies on transcendent wisdomknows that there is no gain, he has no worries and also no fear. Beyond allillusion he has reached the space of highest Nirvana. All Buddhas of the pastpresent and future, found highest perfect knowledge because they relied ontranscendental wisdom.
Therefore we ought to know that the great verse of thetranscendent wisdom is unsurpassed in its splendor and that it appeases trulyall pain. It reads: GATE, GATE, PARAGATE, PARASAMGATE BODHISVAHA!
